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ALL meanings of mortification

mor·ti·fi·ca·tion
M m
  • noun mortification Great embarrassment and shame. 1
  • noun mortification physical self-punishment 1
  • noun mortification humiliation 1
  • noun mortification a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect. 1
  • noun mortification a cause or source of such humiliation or shame. 1
  • noun mortification the practice of asceticism by penitential discipline to overcome desire for sin and to strengthen the will. 1
  • noun mortification Pathology. the death of one part of the body while the rest is alive; gangrene; necrosis. 1
  • uncountable noun mortification Mortification is a strong feeling of shame and embarrassment. 0
  • noun mortification a feeling of loss of prestige or self-respect; humiliation 0
  • noun mortification something causing this 0
  • noun mortification the practice of mortifying the senses 0
  • noun mortification a mortifying or being mortified 0
  • noun mortification the control of physical desires and passions by self-denial, fasting, etc. 0
  • noun mortification shame, humiliation, etc.; loss of self-respect 0
  • noun mortification something causing shame, humiliation, etc. 0
  • noun mortification gangrene 0
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