Mortification

/ˌmoɹtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Synonyms for "mortification" (123 found)

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Noun(6 words)

chagrin humiliation necrosis asceticism chagrining chagrinning

abasement abashment abstinence albigensianismanchoritic monasticismanchoritism asceticism austerity awkwardness caries carrion catharism chagrincold purgatorial firescomedown confusionday of atonementdebasement decay

Strong matches (37)

decomposition deflation descent disappointment discomfiture discomposure disconcertedness disconcertion disconcertment discountenance disgrace distress disturbancedry gangrenedry rotdump embarrassment eremitism fasting flagellation

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foulness franciscanism gangrenegas gangrenehair shirthangdog lookhumbled pridehumiliation ignominy

Noun(8 words)

discomfiture embarrassment embarrassments gangrene humbling humblings humiliating humiliations

Related words (61)

letdown libel lustration maceration mendicantismmoist gangrenemonachism monasticism necrosisnecrotic tissuenoma pang penance penitencepenitential actpenitential exercisepurgation purgatory puritanismput down

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put-down putrefaction putrescence putridity putridness rancidity rancidness rankness remorse repentance rigor rot rottenness sabbatarianismsackcloth and ashesself-abasement self-abnegation self-denial self-diminishment self-mortification setdown shame shamefacedness shamefastness slough sphacelation sphacelus spoilage temperancetooth decaytrappism undoingvoluntary povertywaldensianism yogayom kippur

Noun(5 words)

penance self-denial shame shames sphacelus

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More general

15 entries

ascetic disciplinecase death embarrassment emotionemotional stateexample feeling instancemedical conditionpathologyreligious practiceself-control self-denial self-discipline

More specific

6 entries

austerity fasting gangrenenecrotic tissueprivate mortificationpublic mortification

Collocations

5 entries

bodily mortificationmortification of the fleshpsychological mortificationpublic mortificationreligious mortification

Inflections

1 entries

mortifications

Derivations

6 entries

mortifications mortified mortifier mortify mortifying mortifyingly

Sample sentences

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It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

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Anne's mortification was as evident as Gilbert's satisfaction.

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Near-synonym: humiliation

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Certainly a little mortification appears very becoming in a wife—don't you think it will do her good to let her Pine a little.

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