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Mortification

noun
1.
Strong feelings of embarrassment.  Synonyms: chagrin, humiliation.
2.
The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply).  Synonyms: gangrene, necrosis, sphacelus.
3.
An instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect.  Synonym: humiliation.
4.
(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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"Mortification" Quotes from Famous Books



... of all orders," explained Father Baby, "from their earliest foundations, have counted it a worthy mortification of the flesh to till the ground. And be ready to refresh me without grinning, when I come back muddy from performing the labor to which I might send you, if I were a man who loved sinful ease. Monastic habits are above the understanding of ...
— Old Kaskaskia • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... it were ended now," she exclaimed, trembling with anger and mortification. Her voice was choked by emotion, and broken by smothered sobs. Louis Bastine thought to himself, "she is a real spitfire, but beautiful even in ...
— Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted • Frances E.W. Harper

... a terrible mortification to her; she felt for her husband, and she felt for the disappointment of the girls, ...
— Aunt Mary • Mrs. Perring

... first difficulty was removed, another rose up before me. Would Margaret speak to me? Was she, perhaps, searching for opportunities of mortification, and would refuse the indulgence permitted? I knew as much of the King's Court, as much of a knightly tournament, as I knew of that sealed-up heart of hers. Should I be ...
— In Convent Walls - The Story of the Despensers • Emily Sarah Holt

... hibrida. monk : monahxo. monkey : simio. monster : monstro. mood : modo. moor : stepo, erikejo; "(—a ship)" alligi. moral : morala, bonmora. mortar : mortero, "(a—)" pistujo. mortgage : hipoteko. mortify : cxagreni; gangrenigxi. mortification : (med.), gangrene. mosaic : mozaiko. mosquito : moskito. moss : musko. moth : ("clothes"—), tineo. motive : motivo. motto : devizo, moto. mould : model'i, -ilo; tero, sximo. mound : altajxeto, remparo, digo. mourn ...
— The Esperanto Teacher - A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians • Helen Fryer


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