Definitions for mortification

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mortification mor·ti·fi·ca·tion

Spelling: [mawr-tuh-fi-key-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌmɔr tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Mortification is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 815 anagrams from letters in mortification (acfiiimnoortt).

Definitions for mortification

noun

1. a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.
2. a cause or source of such humiliation or shame.
3. the practice of asceticism by penitential discipline to overcome desire for sin and to strengthen the will.
4. Pathology. the death of one part of the body while the rest is alive; gangrene; necrosis.

Origin of mortification

1350-1400; Middle English mortificacion Late Latin mortificātiōn- (stem of mortificātiō), equivalent to morti- (see mortify) + -ficatiōn-

Examples for mortification

"Never," said Almeria, with a sudden feeling of mortification.

I laid down the letter, and, full of mortification, went walking about the room.

But, to my mortification and surprise, you persisted, and still persist.

He had never been sent to school, lest he should meet with mortification.

It was thought that shame and mortification at his failure had driven him away for ever.

He looked back upon the scene with mortification and astonishment.

But go on, Miss: your mortification will be the greater; that's all, child.

Others have sought in agony and mortification of mind the vision which was denied them.

Belinda assured her that she felt no mortification from the disappointment.

“Hey, muffins,” he calls to his children, with a “wince of mortification” at the whole scene.