'Mortification' definitions:
Definition of 'mortification'
From: WordNet
noun
Strong feelings of embarrassment [syn: chagrin, humiliation, mortification]
noun
The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) [syn: necrosis, mortification, gangrene, sphacelus]
noun
An instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect; "he had to undergo one humiliation after another" [syn: humiliation, mortification]
noun
(Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)
Definition of 'Mortification'
From: GCIDE
- Mortification \Mor`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. mortificatio a killing. See Mortify.]
- 1. The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified; especially: (a) (Med.) 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. --Dunglison. (b) (Alchem. & Old Chem.) Destruction of active qualities; neutralization. [Obs.] --Bacon. (c) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, abstinence, or painful severities inflicted on the body. [1913 Webster]
- The mortification of our lusts has something in it that is troublesome, yet nothing that is unreasonable. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Deep humiliation or shame, from a loss of pride; painful embarassment, usually arising from exposure of a mistake; chagrin; vexation. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 3. That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation. [1913 Webster]
- It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts discovered by a tedious visit. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Scots Law) A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Chagrin; vexation; shame. See Chagrin. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mortification'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abasement,
- abashment,
- abstinence,
- Albigensianism,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- awkwardness,
- caries,
- carrion,
- Catharism,
- chagrin,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- comedown,
- confusion,
- Day of Atonement,
- debasement,
- decay,
- decomposition,
- deflation,
- descent,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- discountenance,
- disgrace,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- dry gangrene,
- dry rot,
- dump,
- embarrassment,
- eremitism,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- foulness,
- Franciscanism,
- gangrene,
- gas gangrene,
- hair shirt,
- hangdog look,
- humbled pride,
- humiliation,
- letdown,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mendicantism,
- moist gangrene,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- necrosis,
- necrotic tissue,
- noma,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- puritanism,
- put-down,
- putrefaction,
- putrescence,
- putridity,
- putridness,
- rancidity,
- rancidness,
- rankness,
- repentance,
- rigor,
- rot,
- rottenness,
- Sabbatarianism,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-denial,
- self-diminishment,
- self-mortification,
- setdown,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- slough,
- sphacelation,
- sphacelus,
- spoilage,
- tooth decay,
- Trappism,
- voluntary poverty,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- Yom Kippur