How To Use Mortification In A Sentence
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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.
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Belinda assured her that she felt no mortification from the disappointment.
Belinda
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That mood of self-punishment, of Catholic mortification, was the one he found hardest to handle.
GRACE
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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
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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
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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
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To be upset by such a pigmy was the height of mortification.
Driven From Home
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Other sadhus practise what they call 'austerities', many of which involve self-mortification.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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And, referring to the ultimate mortification of clamming up on stage, he says he's 'almost never dried in any performance'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gupte would have the mortification of seeing mid-on or square-leg drop the skier.
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Even more important than this elusory internal mortification was the external or environmental mortification which, among the Russian socialists, subsequently came to constitute the substratum of their activities, and which Bakunin described as "complete immersion in the life of the people.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
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To his mortification, he was criticized by the managing director in front of all his junior colleagues.
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The missionary evangelists blessed many wells and encouraged Christian practices of prayer, fasting and barefooted processions of mortification.
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A series of masterpieces followed, stories of male mortification leading to self-destruction.
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These are indeed, like arsenic, and other dangerous drugs in physic, to be used with the utmost caution; nor would I advise the introduction of them at all in those works, or by those authors, to which, or to whom, a horselaugh in the reader would be any great prejudice or mortification.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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The consuming progress of mortification is the image.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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To her great surprise and mortification he was not alone; but brought with him a couple of friends, whom he begged to introduce as Mr. Jeremiah Jackson, and Mr. Solomon Smith, chapmen, (or what in modern vulgar parlance would be termed bagmen) travelling to procure orders for the house of an eminent cloth manufacturer in Manchester.
Jack Sheppard A Romance
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In a haze of tears, mortification, grief, she hears a man calling after her--- "Abigail!
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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Once his father rallied him upon his "grumpiness"; then he grew sullen -- though trying to smile -- thinking with mortification of his grandfather.
The Seeker
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John Baptist appears no way inferior to him in mortification; this therefore is that Elias that was to come.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Now, this doctrine was never in the least charged with denying the Spirit of God to believers; which whilst it doth grant and maintain in a way of opposition to that late opinion which advanceth itself against it, it maintains the mortification of the flesh and the lusts thereof upon the only true and unshaken foundation.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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To the mortification of the show's organizers, the top performers withdrew at the last minute.
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As the affair went on with much detail of correspondence between the konak and the consulate for some weeks, it had attracted the general attention of our little public, and the final defeat of the pasha was a mortification to him which he made every effort to conceal.
The Autobiography of a Journalist
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For the Buddha's monks this meant a life of mendicancy, of poverty but not of self-mortification, of celibacy and of gentle honesty.
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He expressed in strong terms his annoyance at what he called their impertinence, whilst I could not but laugh at his impatience, as well as at the mortification of the unfortunate pedestrians, whose eagerness to see him, I said, was, in my opinion, highly flattering to him.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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Separat item Deus nos baptismi symbolo ab omnibus alienis religionibus et populis, et sibi consecrat ceu peculium: nos itaque, dum baptizamur, confitemur fidem nostram et obstringimur Deo ad obedientiam et mortificationem carnis vitaeque novitatem, adeoque inscribimur in sanctam Christi militiam, ut toto vitae cursu pugnemus contra mundum, et Satanam, atque carnem propriam.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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Their bodies, thinned by rigorous fasting and scarred by the disciplines of self-mortification, were decently concealed by long dark robes.
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Sir Hugh could now repair the omissions of his youth; but he was willing to console his want of knowledge, and sooth his mortifications; and while he grieved for his bodily infirmities, and pitied his mental repinings, he considered his idea as not illaudable, though injudicious, and in favour of its blamelessness, forgave its absurdity.
Camilla
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According to Chesterton, dirtiness is merely a kind of discomfort and therefore ranks as self-mortification.
The Road to Wigan Pier
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To his mortification, he was criticized by the managing director in front of all his junior colleagues.
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He interviewed me, much to my mortification - people want him, not me for heaven's sake, but he knew what he was doing.
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This is our spiritful standing through faith by virtue of Christ's death: our actual mortification of particular sins is in proportion to the degree of our effectually being made conformable to His death.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Scott's words on finding that he had been beaten reveal his bitter mortification and sense of failure.
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At first he studied under teachers who prescribed rigorous fasting and self-mortification.
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Mr. Roe's next care was to reload, but to his extreme mortification and dismay he found his cartouch box had turned round in the belt and every cartridge had dropped out: being thus deprived of his ammunition, and having no other resource left but to make his escape, he turned round and ran towards the beach; at the same time shouting loudly to apprize our people of his danger.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
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The mention of Gedge's name cowed Reginald in an instant, and in the sudden revulsion of feeling which ensued he was glad enough to escape from the room before fairly breaking down under a crushing sense of injury, mortification, and helplessness.
Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life
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Carlyle's mortification was, in Froude's opinion, but justice to the memory of his oppressed wife - and so the whole truth must be told.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Tears started to sting at my eyes, rising from the storm of fear and anger and mortification that raged somewhere around my stomach.
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So those hideous, snotty, phthisicky, eaves-dropping, musty, moving forms of mortification, both in public and private, curse those dainty books, and like toads spit their venom upon them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Do Thou that wast born of the Virgin, drown in the depth of impassivity the triformity of my soul -- those mighty strongholds, I implore Thee, that in the mortification of flesh as on a tymbal I may melodize a triumphant hymn unto Thee.
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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"You getting snockered and I die of mortification, or you have a doppelganger and drown in the Bay of Spezia with Shelley?
My Drifter Doppelganger
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If Kotex succeeds in chipping away even a little at this deeply ingrained mortification, they're doing something a lot better than make a groovier tampon or hipper panty liner.
Susan Kim: How to Advertise Down There
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GALLAGHER: Well, self-flagellation is an extreme form of self - denial, what they call mortification, and which, in fact, is not unknown to the Catholic religion, or indeed other religions that practice self-denial and that encourage self-denial, sacrifice, for one's own good.
CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2002
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Will the mortification never cease?
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And then, but that half a dozen at once endeavoured to keep down her violent hands, would she have beaten herself; as it seems she had often attempted to do from the time the surgeon popt out the word mortification to her.
Clarissa Harlowe
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That mood of self-punishment, of Catholic mortification, was the one he found hardest to handle.
GRACE
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To his mortification, his parents would invite doorstepping news hounds into their home for a cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elijah was a man of great austerity and mortification, zealous for God, bold in reproving sin, and active to reduce an apostate people to God and their duty; John Baptist was animated by the same spirit and power, and preached repentance and reformation, as Elias had done; and all held him for a prophet, as they did Elijah in his day, and that his baptism was from heaven, and not of men.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Myrrh has been associated with bitter repentance , mortification of the flesh, and penance.
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What a mortification is this to the princes of the blood, as they call themselves, that God can make that blood, that royal blood, which swells their veins, a feast for the birds and beasts of prey!
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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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.
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His descriptions of the practice of corporal mortification is also inaccurate, as is his representation of the cilice and the discipline.
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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
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Page 50 modification of structure occurs, to which the term mortification is applied.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
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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.
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Not since she had been in love had Rosanna Nixon felt such complete mortification.
THE SCAR
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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
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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
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Miss Burney protested indignantly, her long thin nose turning pink with mortification at this irreverent piece of mimicry
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This performance he called a mortification of his frame; but when this sly churchman slipped up and put on his capote again, his thin visage bore the same gratified lines which may be seen on the face of a child making mud pies.
Old Kaskaskia
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Nov. 13, 1804, of a mortification in his leg, originating in the seemingly slight circumstance of a rasure against a chair, in the act of reaching a book from a shelf.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
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It was not until after our arrival at Tampico that I had the mortification to discover that the interesting creature, the charming recluse, is seventy-eight, and has just buried her seventh husband!
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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I say, then, that the first thing in mortification is the weakening of this habit, that it shall not impel and tumultuate as formerly; that it shall not entice and draw aside; that it shall not disquiet and perplex the killing of its life, vigour, promptness, and readiness to be stirring.
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers
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I don't really want to spend the weekend working, but as they say, a little mortification of the flesh is good for the soul.
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But I'm so red in the face that I outrival a lobster, and the freshmen mistake my mortification for an admission of guilt.
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These forms of self-punishment, known as "mortification of the flesh," have been around for ages and are certainly not unique to Opus Dei.
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Do Thou that wast born of the Virgin, drown in the depth of impassivity the triformity of my soul -- those mighty strongholds, I implore Thee, that in the mortification of flesh as on a tymbal I may melodize a triumphant hymn unto Thee.
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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One is therefore, from more than one point of view, left with a sort of Fakir self-mortification, undertaken and "dreed" neither to atone for anything, nor to propitiate any Power, nor really to benefit any man.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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It's not a bad way to spend a Tuesday lunchtime, in a rehearsal room in Clapham High Street, south London, listening to Simon Russell Beale expound on centaurs, Little Nell and the idealisation of childhood, modern Pimlico, 19th-century German symphonic music, his benign attitude to errant theatregoers with mobiles ( "Their own mortification is their punishment") and murder.
Simon Russell Beale: 'I believe passionately in live theatre'
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Hic objiciunt adversarii, quod nostri prohibeant disciplinam et mortificationem carnis, sicut Jovinianus.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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Manager : Ah! The famous Monsieur poirot. I grovel in mortification, I grovel !
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Agreeing in some points of his history, they all celebrate his life of penitence, his mortifications, his fastings, his functions of mediator and expiator, the enmity between him and another god, his adversary, their battles, and his ascendency.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
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I don't really want to spend the weekend working, but as they say, a little mortification of the flesh is good for the soul.
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To give him the greater weight, he was created a landgrave of the colony, to which dignity forty-eight thousand acres of land were unalienably annexed: but to his mortification he soon found, that the proprietary government had acquired but little firmness and stability, and, by his imprudence and rigour, fell into still greater disrespect and contempt.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1
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This treatment was called mortification or faisandage after the pheasant, faisan, and had two purposes: it tenderized the meat, and further heightened its “wild” flavor.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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Perhaps my finest hour for sheer self-induced mortification was the Christmas when I was just 18.
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That immerfion in water, fignifies the the mortification of the old man, and the refurrection of the new; that therefore it may be called the laver of regeneration, and true laver in the word, alfo in the death and burial of Chrift; That the life of a chriflian is a daily baptifm once begun in this manner 5;
Consolation : being a replication to Thomas Paine, and others, on theologics
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When I turn a corner in snowball days, the boys with bulging pockets see a head held high and a step unquickened, but I know that I cringe inwardly; and this private mortification I set down against old
The Promised Land
