Mortification Definition

môrtə-fĭ-kāshən
mortifications
noun
mortifications
A mortifying or being mortified.
Webster's New World
Something causing shame, humiliation, etc.
Webster's New World
Discipline of the body and the appetites by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially when undertaken for religious reasons.
American Heritage

Gangrene.

Webster's New World
Death or decay of living tissue; gangrene.
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Other Word Forms of Mortification

Noun

Singular:
mortification
Plural:
mortifications

Mortification Sentence Examples

  • Catherine, in deep mortification, proceeded on her way.

  • But while he insists on repentance and mortification, he says nothing about public confession or discipline.

  • He spent himself in apostolic works and practiced austere mortification.

  • Whatever the European sovereigns and commanders may do to countenance Bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and mortification, our opinion of Bonaparte cannot alter.

  • It is that which will take us as much mortification as any other sin.

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