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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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When she re-emerged to the sounds of chortling, her face was red as a beet with mortification.
This is the time to love passive mortification which comes, hidden perhaps or barefaced and insolent, when we least expect it.
His descriptions of the practice of corporal mortification is also inaccurate, as is his representation of the cilice and the discipline.
A series of masterpieces followed, stories of male mortification leading to self-destruction.
Last month I urged you to be especially vigilant in your spirit of mortification and penance.
To my mortification, my backpack is being carried by a kid who looks all of 10 years old.

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