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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
- Gupte would have the mortification of seeing mid-on or square-leg drop the skier.
- In a haze of tears, mortification, grief, she hears a man calling after her--- "Abigail! MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
- Belinda assured her that she felt no mortification from the disappointment. Belinda
- That mood of self-punishment, of Catholic mortification, was the one he found hardest to handle. GRACE
- I believe, the mortification he felt at the Arabs having licked us gave him more pain than the damage done to his legs by the ball of the matchlock, which had taken him athwartship through the fleshy part of his understandings -- breaking no bones, but crippling him all the same. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
- Why did you decide to have Shadow, rather than Wednesday, obtain mystical insight through mortification of the flesh? 'Where do you get your Ideas?' An Essay by Neil Gaiman
- In the opening to The Human Stain, author Philip Roth's narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, describes the summer of 1998, when "Bill Clinton's secret" - about Monica - "emerged in every last mortifying detail - every last lifelike detail, the livingness, like the mortification, exuded by the pungency of the specific data. Michael Takiff: Bill Clinton, Still the Biggest Dog in Town
- To be upset by such a pigmy was the height of mortification. Driven From Home
- Other sadhus practise what they call 'austerities', many of which involve self-mortification. Times, Sunday Times
