Both Uses of
mortified
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Fellow always like that, mortified if women are by.†
Chpt 6 *
- …all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(mortified as in: felt mortified) exceedingly embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated