Mortification
noun
A strong feeling of embarrassment and annoyance because something has happened that makes you look bad.
To his great mortification, his speech was greeted with laughter.
Often appears as...
- to my mortification
- much to her mortification
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Formal
noun
The act of subduing your desires or actions.
The monks lived a life of prayer and mortification.
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Religious
noun
The process in which soft tissues of a dead body decay.
The patient suffered from mortification of the tissue due to restricted blood flow.
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Medical
noun
A strong feeling of embarrassment and annoyance because something has happened that makes you look bad.
To his great mortification, his speech was greeted with laughter.
Often appears as...
- to my mortification
- much to her mortification
Usage tips
Formal
noun
The act of subduing your desires or actions.
The monks lived a life of prayer and mortification.
Usage tips
Formal
Religious
noun
The process in which soft tissues of a dead body decay.
The patient suffered from mortification of the tissue due to restricted blood flow.
Usage tips
Formal
Medical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Social Risks
The word emphasizes the anxiety of being in a socially uncomfortable situation.
He experienced mortification when his pants ripped in public.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Emotion
Mortification goes beyond slight shame; it reflects deep embarrassment.
Her mortification was so intense that she couldn't face her classmates.
Pro Tip 3/3Lasting Impact
The feeling of mortification may have lasting emotional effects.
The mortification of the event haunted him for years.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Risks
The word emphasizes the anxiety of being in a socially uncomfortable situation.
He experienced mortification when his pants ripped in public.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Emotion
Mortification goes beyond slight shame; it reflects deep embarrassment.
Her mortification was so intense that she couldn't face her classmates.
Pro Tip 3/3Lasting Impact
The feeling of mortification may have lasting emotional effects.
The mortification of the event haunted him for years.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Risks
The word emphasizes the anxiety of being in a socially uncomfortable situation.
He experienced mortification when his pants ripped in public.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Emotion
Mortification goes beyond slight shame; it reflects deep embarrassment.
Her mortification was so intense that she couldn't face her classmates.
Pro Tip 3/3Lasting Impact
The feeling of mortification may have lasting emotional effects.
The mortification of the event haunted him for years.
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Sarah Jones: One woman,...
So you'll remember, people of that era would have had an external electronic device, right, something like this, and they all would have carried one of these around with them, and amongst their biggest fears was the sheer mortification
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Ulysses S. Grant
American President
I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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Adoniram Judson
American Clergyman
The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death.
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Raoul Vaneigem
Belgian Philosopher
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
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Mother Angelica
American Educator
My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.
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John Owen
English Theologian
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
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John Owen
English Theologian
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
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Ulysses S. Grant
American President
I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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Adoniram Judson
American Clergyman
The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death.
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Raoul Vaneigem
Belgian Philosopher
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
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Mother Angelica
American Educator
My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.
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John Owen
English Theologian
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
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John Owen
English Theologian
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
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