mortification

How To Use mortification In A Sentence

• In one act of mortification one can practice many virtues, according to the different ends which one proposes in each act, as for example: 1. He who mortifies his body for the purpose of checking concupiscence, performs an act of the virtue of temperance. Archive 2009-03-15
• 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
• When the aurist heard of the danger his patient had run, through the violence of the remedy he had employed, he hastened to Apsley House to express his grief and mortification; but the duke merely said: How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success
• And, referring to the ultimate mortification of clamming up on stage, he says he's 'almost never dried in any performance'. Times, Sunday Times