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What does mortification mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of mortifying.
  2. A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
  3. (medicine) The death of part of the body.
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Scott's words on finding that he had been beaten reveal his bitter mortification and sense of failure.
At 19, I suffered a kind of flinching, excruciating mortification.
Tears started to sting at my eyes, rising from the storm of fear and anger and mortification that raged somewhere around my stomach.
To my mortification, my backpack is being carried by a kid who looks all of 10 years old.
His descriptions of the practice of corporal mortification is also inaccurate, as is his representation of the cilice and the discipline.
Last month I urged you to be especially vigilant in your spirit of mortification and penance.

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