mortification
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tə noun
1.
a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.
2.
a cause or source of such humiliation or shame.
3.
the practice of asceticism by penitential discipline to overcome desire for sin and to strengthen the will.
4.
Pathology. the death of one part of the body while the rest is alive; gangrene; necrosis.
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| 1. | a feeling of loss of prestige or self-respect; humiliation |
| 2. | something causing this |
| 3. | Christianity the practice of mortifying the senses |
| 4. | another word for gangrene |
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Word Origin & History
mortification
late 14c., "mortifying the flesh," from L.L. mortificationem (nom. mortificatio), from pp. of mortificare (see mortify). Sense of "feeling of humiliation" first recorded 1640s.
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Medical Dictionary
mortification mor·ti·fi·ca·tion (môr'tə-fĭ-kā'shən)
n.
Death or decay of one part of a living body; gangrene; necrosis.
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Example sentences
Her vexation and mortification were great when her brothers went to college and she could not also go.
The attention of peers is crucial, shunning by them a long-remembered mortification.
But his exact regularity and uniformity of life, with a continued practice of interior self-denials, was the best mortification.
Along with feelings of pride have come moments of unease and even mortification.
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