mortification
noun
- a mortifying or being mortified; specif.,
- the control of physical desires and passions by self-denial, fasting, etc.
- shame, humiliation, etc.; loss of self-respect
- something causing shame, humiliation, etc.
- gangrene
See mortification in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(môrˌtə-fĭ-kāˈshən)
noun- A feeling of shame, humiliation, or wounded pride.
- Discipline of the body and the appetites by self-denial or self-inflicted privation.
- Pathology Death or decay of one part of a living body; gangrene or necrosis.
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