MORTIFICATION


Meaning of MORTIFICATION in English

noun Date: 14th century the subjection and denial of bodily passions and appetites by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort, necrosis , gangrene , 3. a sense of humiliation and shame caused by something that wounds one's pride or self-respect, the cause of such humiliation or shame

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