Top Mortification Quotes

My fear is that he'll forget me," she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. "I'd rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the embarrassment.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Mortification Definition

(n.) The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified

(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.) Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.

(n.) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.

(n.) Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.

(n.) That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.

(n.) A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.