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    mortification


    1. Marbled with mortification


    2. In the modern philosophy, it was frequently represented as generally, or rather as almost always, inconsistent with any degree of happiness in this life; and heaven was to be earned only by penance and mortification, by the austerities and abasement of a monk, not by the liberal, generous, and spirited conduct of a man


    3. Several of the Spaniards were weeping bitter tears of mortification, and though for months I had joyously anticipated the end of their brutal sway in Cuba, now one could but feel pity for Toral and his staff, who at least had fought bravely for their country and had won respect


    4. congregation and the spirit of sacrifice and mortification of the women who carried upon their shoulders the very heavy statue of Our Lady of Sorrow during the prolonged run through the steepest streets of the town


    5. But under his mortification a dreadful realization presently made itself felt


    6. She selected, from her wide repertoire, the words that more mortification throw on the inflated self-esteem of the pretentious Beatrice and declared without mufflers:


    7. He suspected he had been born with a sense of unworthiness that could only be assuaged by regular self mortification


    8. He began to introduce her to the bride and groom and all the family as in frenzy, much to her mortification


    9. The tips of three fingers had gone, gangrene had set in and the mortification of the flesh possessed a foul smell of terror and death


    10. If she had known that Aureliano Segundo was going to take things the way he did, with the fine pleasure of a grandfather, she would not have taken so many turns or got so mixed up, but would have freed herself from mortification the year before Amaranta Úrsula, who already had her second teeth, thought of her nephew as a scurrying toy who was a consolation for the tedium of the rain

    11. The inkwell that she had placed at her right would be on the left, the blotter would be lost and she would find it two days later under her pillow, and the pages written to José Arcadio would get mixed up with those written to Amaranta Úrsula, and she always had the feeling of mortification that she had put the letters in opposite envelopes, as in fact happened several times


    12. Inflamed, not so much because of the damage as because of the disgust and pity that he felt for himself in the emptiness of the saturnalia, he armed himself with an ecclesiastical cat-o-nine-tails that he kept in the bottom of his trunk along with a hair-shirt and other instruments of mortification and penance, and drove the children out of the house, howling like a madman and whipping them without mercy as a person would not even have done to a pack of coyotes


    13. lives of mortification, e


    14. corruption, nor studying mortification and


    15. Much to the mortification of some vil-


    16. mortification of his mind and senses to shape them in accordance with


    17. towards yagya, mortification of the senses along with the mind, absence


    18. Haven could only stare in sheer mortification as the rest of the class snickered


    19. He unintentionally brushed Corrine aside, (to her intense and inner mortification and fury, for she was not accustomed to such treatment - especially from men), as he handed the medical case down to Falcon’s brother


    20. Just when she thought she couldn’t be humiliated even further, this had to happen! With a deep, long-suffering sigh, which was full of mortification, Kathy replied

    21. “Well, anything else that is found will also be examined at the morgue and afterwards, it will be released to you, along with her—” Clayton broke off, mortification flooding his face


    22. of hot mortification spread across every inch of her skin


    23. I sensed that they had no mortification whatever at having attempted to pillage the hard-earned income of a boy, but instead they believed that there would never be another offer to purchase The Rocks in their lifetimes


    24. the Daitya guru to take up his thousand-year vow of mortification;


    25. Much to the mortification of Parvateshwar,


    26. “That had to be gross!” I wailed out softly in mortification


    27. “With us it would be a striking and satisfactory proof of a continuance of conscious existence after death, but no proof whatever of a resurrection, and yet it is to prove this letter exclusively that our Lord, who could not have reasoned inaccurately or sophistically, adduces it, and his acute and leaned disputants, to their deep mortification, were forced to acquiesce, and stood confounded by his wisdom


    28. Sancho glanced at him and saw him with his head bent down upon his breast in manifest mortification; and Don Quixote glanced at Sancho and saw him with his cheeks puffed out and his mouth full of laughter, and evidently ready to explode with it, and in spite of his vexation he could not help laughing at the sight of him; and when Sancho saw his master begin he let go so heartily that he had to hold his sides with both hands to keep himself from bursting with laughter


    29. She was proud, and her pride was useful just then, for it helped her hide her mortification, anger, and disgust at what she had just heard


    30. I tried both ways, and when it came to a sniff or utter mortification and woe, he just threw the grammar on to the floor and marched out of the room

    31. mortification knew no bounds


    32. "If you weren't more a lass than a lad, I'd fell thee this minute, I would; pitiful lath of a crater!" retorted the angry boor, retreating, while his face burnt with mingled rage and mortification; for he was conscious of being insulted, and embarrassed how to resent it


    33. Hareton's chest heaved in silence a minute: he laboured under a severe sense of mortification and wrath, which it was no easy task to suppress


    34. It was therefore no small mortification to him to have visited most of the principal cities in Italy without having excited the most trifling observation


    35. But the scornful expression of the young man's eye admitted of so many constructions, that the worthy scout was spared the mortification of such a discovery


    36. That is, that when Pinocchio and Candlewick discovered that they were both struck with the same misfortune, instead of feeling full of mortification and grief, they began to prick their ungainly ears and to make a thousand antics, and they ended by going into bursts of laughter


    37. "He may have been married already, and her cruel mortification may have been


    38. Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity


    39. He knew, she realized with mortification, that she was in love with him, and he was refusing her offer of help because he did not want to encourage her hopeless passion


    40. To the housekeeper's great mortification, she called the child Heidi, remarking to Miss Rottenmeier: "If somebody's name is Heidi, I call her so

    41. Holmes was grey with anger and mortification


    42. He was, in his original, a lad of the place, who had gone into Glasgow, where he was in a topping line; and happening to be on a visit to his friends at the time, he came to the meeting and put down his name for twenty guineas, which he gave me in bank-notes—a sum of such liberality as had never been given to the town from one individual man, since the mortification of fifty pounds that we got by the will of Major Bravery that died in Cheltenham, in England, after making his fortune in India


    43. But habit had begot in the town a partiality for the drunken ne’er-do-well, Robin; and this just act of mine was immediately condemned as a daring stretch of arbitrary power; and the consequence was, that when the council met next day, some sharp words flew from among us, as to my usurping an undue authority; and the thank I got for my pains was the mortification to see the worthless body restored to full power and dignity, with no other reward than an admonition to behave better for the future


    44. And I say this with the greater sincerity; for in my secret conscience, when I think of the affair at this distance of time, I am pricked not a little in reflecting how I had previously crowed and triumphed over poor Mr Hickery, in the matter of his mortification at the time of Miss Peggy Dainty’s false step


    45. However he soon gave a rebuff, that laid us all on our backs in a state of the greatest mortification


    46. Kitty was particularly glad of a chance of being alone with her husband, for she had noticed the shade of mortification that had passed over his face—always so quick to reflect every feeling—at the moment when he had come onto the terrace and asked what they were talking of, and had got no answer


    47. immediately at having shown his annoyance to a stranger, and he began to laugh at his hungry mortification


    48. Levin sighed with mortification


    49. She quailed a little as she thought how white with mortification Ellen would would forgive her when she saw her happiness


    50. previous tortures was added now that sense of mortification and of being an outcast which she had felt so distinctly on meeting Kitty























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    Synonyms for "mortification"

    mortification humiliation chagrin gangrene necrosis sphacelus discipline denial sacrifice austerity purgation shame disgrace remorse regret

    "mortification" definitions

    strong feelings of embarrassment


    the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)


    an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect


    (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)