mortification
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French mortification, from Old French, from Latin mortificatio.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌmɔːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌmoɹtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, (weak vowel merger) /-tə-/, /-fə-/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
mortification (countable and uncountable, plural mortifications)
- The act of mortifying.
- A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
- 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.ii:
- Certainly a little mortification appears very becoming in a wife—don't you think it will do her good to let her Pine a little.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Consent”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 152:
- He felt stunned—mortification, sorrow, and anger, mingled together: the past was like a dream, and the future swam indistinctly before him.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
- (medicine) The death of part of the body.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- And then there's the fever and the mortification—if it took bad ways he'd quickly be gone.
- A bringing under of the passions and appetites by a severe or strict manner of living.
- (law, Scotland) A bequest to a charitable institution.
Synonyms[edit]
- (a sensation of extreme shame): shame, humiliation
Antonyms[edit]
- (antonym(s) of “a sensation of extreme shame”): honor, exaltation
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
act of mortifying
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a sensation of extreme shame
death of a body part
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
mortification f (plural mortifications)
Further reading[edit]
- “mortification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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