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/mˌɔːtɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˈmɔɹtəfˌkeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈmɔɹtəfˌkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
- strong feelings of embarrassment
- (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)
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an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
he had to undergo one humiliation after another
How To Use mortification In A Sentence
- Miss Burney protested indignantly, her long thin nose turning pink with mortification at this irreverent piece of mimicry
- Hic objiciunt adversarii, quod nostri prohibeant disciplinam et mortificationem carnis, sicut Jovinianus. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
- And without further parley, followed by his soldiers, he retired into the casemate, leaving Captain Servadac gnawing his mustache with mingled rage and mortification. Off on a Comet
- angelica vestis" of the tertiary order; and the "beatified" Duchess who had sold her jewels to buy corn for the poor during the famine of 1670, and had worn a hair-shirt under a corset that seemed stiff enough to serve all the purposes of bodily mortification. The Valley of Decision
- Not since she had been in love had Rosanna Nixon felt such complete mortification. THE SCAR
- Everyone suffers agonies of mortification that he'll seem a trailer-trash rube if he says out loud the plain truth that the modernist emperor has no clothes.
- Page 50 modification of structure occurs, to which the term mortification is applied. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
- England, and follow your example, I think — turn hermit, or some plaguy thing or other, and see what a constant course of penitence and mortification will do for me. Clarissa Harlowe
- His descriptions of the practice of corporal mortification is also inaccurate, as is his representation of the cilice and the discipline.
- I hear a huge ka-blunk and commotion behind me, and I turn to find Reba laying on the floor, half recovering from a huge sneeze and half laughing in mortification. 10 outstretched hands reaching down to her and cries of concern from all directions. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
