Both Uses
mortified
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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- Mortification set in, and they had to amputate him.†
Chpt 32 *
- Yes, it was mortification—that was it.†
Chpt 32
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortified as in: felt mortified) extremely embarrassed and ashamed—so humiliated that pride feels wounded.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) a sense of biological decay; or a sense of ascetic self-imposed hardship; or (archaically) to be emotionally numbed