mortification

Mortification is the feeling of humiliation or wounded pride, or something that causes such feelings.

(noun)

An example of a mortification is having your pants split open while on a stage.

See mortification in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a mortifying or being mortified; specif.,
1. the control of physical desires and passions by self-denial, fasting, etc.
2. shame, humiliation, etc.; loss of self-respect
something causing shame, humiliation, etc.
gangrene

Origin: ME mortificacioun < LL(Ec) mortificatio < pp. of mortificare

See mortification in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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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