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Definition & Synonyms
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• Mortification
- (n.) Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.
- (n.) A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.
- (n.) Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.
- (n.) The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified
- (n.) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.
- (n.) The death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene.
- (n.) That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.
Synonyms:
Chagrin, Gangrene, Humiliation, Necrosis, Sphacelus,
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• Mortifiedness
- (n.) The state of being mortified; humiliation; subjection of the passions.
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• Mortifier
- (n.) One who, or that which, mortifies.
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• Mortifying
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortify
- (a.) Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.
- (a.) Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.
- (a.) Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances.
Synonyms:
Demeaning, Embarrassing, Humbling, Humiliating,
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• Mortised
- (imp. & p. p.) of Mortise
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• Mortising
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortise
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• Mortify
- (v. t.) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
- (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.
- (v. i.) To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
- (v. t.) To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.
- (v. t.) To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
- (v. i.) To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
- (v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
Synonyms:
Abase, Chagrin, Gangrene, Humble, Humiliate, Necrose, Sphacelate, Subdue,
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• Mortise
- (v. t.) To cut or make a mortisein.
- (v. t.) To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
- (n.) A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.
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• Mortiferous
- (a.) Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb.
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• Mortified
- () imp. & p. p. of Mortify.
- (imp. & p. p.) of Mortify
Synonyms:
Embarrassed, Gangrenous, Humiliated,
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