Mortifications

Word MORTIFICATIONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Mortifications"

What do we mean by mortifications?

The act of mortifying.

A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.

The death of part of the body.

A bringing under of the passions and appetites by a severe or strict manner of living.

A bequest to a charitable institution.

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The word "mortifications" in example sentences

He wryly referred to Trist as “a flank battery planted against me,” and added: “Considering the many cruel disappointments and mortifications I have been made to feel … or the total want of support and sympathy, on the part of the War Department, which I have so long experienced, I beg to be recalled from this army.” ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

The prayers the women say, their conversations with Christ, their bodily mortifications, and their visions (the last two often done in secret but eventually revealed to the community) fill the pages of the Sister-Books. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At St. Cuthbert ' s in Edinburgh, on deciding to erect a board of names, the Kirk Session expressed the hope that the said mortifications, being conspicuously inscribed in gold characters may be a motive to others to follow the example of the mortifiers. ❋ Lennox Morrison (2010)

What began as another misconceived newspaper prank rapidly grew into a life-threatening feud and one of the most mortifying events in a life that was not without its share of public and private mortifications—most of them self-inflicted. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

At the same time, it also contains the greatest number of examples of extreme religious discipline in the form of hairshirts, flagellation, and other types of bodily mortifications. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Perhaps the best penance is the patient and loving endurance of hardships and sorrows which come our way; those unchosen mortifications can be heavy enough. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

Of all the inconveniences and mortifications heaped upon us since the untaming of the shrews, I would argue that nothing so besets a man as the monthly indignities of PMT. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Saint Patrick's Day feast almost always lands toward the end of Lent when the fasting and mortifications have become habitual and we are, perhaps, longing for an opportunity to celebrate the lives of one of our great saints. ❋ Jessica (2009)

I could only speak for myself so I mentioned mortifications whenever possible. ❋ Esther (2009)

To practice all the mortifications that obedience permits. ❋ Margaret (2009)

Versailles is not usually associated with Lenten penance, but fasting and abstinence, as well as some mortifications, were observed there by many during the old regime. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

These midrashim, which present the request for forgiveness by David, who undertakes tribulations and mortifications, and is punished in diverse ways, clearly delineate the approach that David did, in fact, sin, but was eventually absolved. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I hope to be able to not only pray for them but to offer sacrifices and mortifications on their behalf. ❋ Esther (2009)

These mortifications she continued for over thirty years, till her ecclesiastical superiors thought it their duty to make her diminish her austerities. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2009)

I only lament that he did not observe some decency in his infidelities; and that, while he gratified his own caprice, he forgot how much he exposed his wife to the most degrading mortifications ❋ Unknown (2007)

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