一いっ死し報ほう国こく

noun

dying for one's country

A yojijukugo expressing the idea of sacrificing one's life to repay one's country. Formal and somewhat literary; not used in everyday conversation.

• 彼かれは一いっ死し報ほう国こくの精せい神しんで戦せん場じょうに赴おもむいた。

  He went to the battlefield with the spirit of dying for his country.