Examples of 'mortification' in a sentence
Meaning of "mortification"
mortification (noun) - the act of disciplining or denying oneself in order to overcome desires, sins, or worldly attachments. Mortification is often practiced as a form of penance or spiritual purification in religious contexts
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- The act of mortifying.
- A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
- The death of part of the body.
- A bringing under of the passions and appetites by a severe or strict manner of living.
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Mortification has a wide use in terms of bequests.
He practiced corporal mortification and was strict in discipline.
Leave me nothing but shame and mortification.
Might just keep mortification from setting in.
She also led a life of extreme mortification.
The means is the mortification of the flesh.
Recent theology affirms the practice of mortification.
Mortification is his assault on the second.
Those days were a continued inner mortification for me.
Mortification was a better word for what had happened.
The worst of it all wasfacing the mortification.
Repentance and mortification of the flesh.
The worst of it all was facing the mortification.
Mortification of the flesh in his sepulchre.
Holmes was grey with anger and mortification.
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Mortification to the victims of the joke.
She was devoted to prayer and practices of mortification.
We tumble from one mortification to another.
Mortification of particular sins arises from a guilty conscience.
Chagrin from the spectators of her mortification.
The instrument of mortification is in the heart.
The whole evening is a haze of alcohol and mortification.
In myrrh is figured mortification of the flesh.
The mortification of the visitor at this.
The consuming progress of mortification is the image.
Jacinta was insatiable in the practice of sacrifice and mortification.
You can imagine what a mortification it is to me.
Or attained great perfection through the greatest mortification.
But you won because of mortification and prayers.
We sometimes even call our daily sanctification mortification.
Small acts of penance or mortification throughout the day.
He retired to a cell near the monastery for mortification.
And thus the mortification of normal relations was hastened.
This is the very picture of mortification.
And thus the mortification of normal reactions was hastened.
This man deserves no indignant mortification.
Gressed by the mortification of the body.
I can not let my son take the mortification.
Mortification has its place.
Be humble and love mortification yourself.
Mortification is useless without charity.
This is called the mortification of desires.
Mortification is a part of our sanctification.
Try to practice the mortification of speech.
Mortification is the most important part of the monastic rule.
The fruit of this mystery is mortification of the senses.
Narcissistic mortification may also be produced by death of someone close.
Many of her wounds were in a state of mortification from neglect.
So much mortification is too much.
He then began to lead a life of strict poverty and mortification.
