Examples of 'mortify' in a sentence
Meaning of "mortify"
To mortify means to embarrass or humiliate someone, especially in a public setting. It can also refer to causing someone to feel extreme shame or self-consciousness
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- To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
- To kill.
- To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
How to use "mortify" in a sentence
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Properly mortify you in front of your father.
The most important thing is to mortify reason.
I will mortify myself in front of the crowd.
There is a time for us to mortify our flesh.
You mortify your flesh too much.
He slept without blankets to mortify the flesh.
You mortify me like that in front of my father.
Your first act on returning is to mortify me.
You mortify your flesh too hard.
Your fickle fancy and mockingly mortify my heart.
We use the word mortify in terms of crucifixion.
Mortify the curiosity of the eyes.
The leg will mortify by the morning.
To mortify sin is not to utterly destroy it.
His pure heart begins to mortify.
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They mortify their flesh for pleasure.
They are ministering to that which they ought to mortify.
Let us mortify her so that my fantasy alone rules.
That would truly mortify her.
We mortify our members which are upon the earth.
But do not mortify me more.
Yew mortify me in fronta my fatha.
You do not mortify reason.
Mortify the flesh.
You must mortify your body.
He slept on those without blankets in order to mortify the flesh.
We need to mortify ourselves to the world.
Something to really mortify him.
Learn to mortify your intelligence.
You must not mortify me.
We must mortify the lusts and affections of the flesh.
I do not fast to mortify my flesh.
To mortify our members is to seek the death of our sinful inclinations.
You want to mortify yourself.
She refused to answer on the grounds that it would mortify her.
The battle to mortify our sins is part of our sanctification.
We do not have to mortify them.
Could mortify me more.
Unless you can think of another way you can mortify me tonight.
You do not have to mortify yourself thinking about this.
To mortify his humanity he wore a hair shirt that tortoured the flesh.
Pay no attention to what will mortify you or humiliate you.
Mortify insurance with the fantastic new cover back for your home.
I should mortify them.
Mortify the deeds of the flesh by the Spirit.
She loves to mortify me.
You must mortify yourselves and go to Confession at least every four weeks.
We are the ones who have to mortify our members upon the earth.
All of the members had also played with Mortify.
With this gesture we will mortify even the smallest of our sins.
