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mor⋅ti⋅fi⋅ca⋅tion

  [mawr-tuh-fi-key-shuhn]
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–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.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME mortificacion < LL mortificātiōn- (s. of mortificātiō), equiv. to morti- (see mortify ) + -ficatiōn- -fication

Synonyms:
1. See shame.
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mor·ti·fi·ca·tion   (môr'tə-fĭ-kā'shən)   
n.  

  1. A feeling of shame, humiliation, or wounded pride.

  2. Discipline of the body and the appetites by self-denial or self-inflicted privation.

  3. Pathology Death or decay of one part of a living body; gangrene or necrosis.

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: mor·ti·fi·ca·tion
Pronunciation: "mort-&-f&-'kA-sh&n
Function: noun
: local death of tissue in the animalbody : NECROSIS, GANGRENE
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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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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