All 26 Uses of
mortified
in
Emma
- Miss Churchill, however, being of age, and with the full command of her fortune—though her fortune bore no proportion to the family-estate—was not to be dissuaded from the marriage, and it took place, to the infinite mortification of Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, who threw her off with due decorum.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- "To be sure," said Harriet, in a mortified voice, "he is not so genteel as real gentlemen."†
Chpt 1.3-4 *
- I should be mortified indeed if I did not believe I had been of some use; but it is not every body who will bestow praise where they may.†
Chpt 1.7-8
- He felt the disappointment of the young man, and was mortified to have been the means of promoting it, by the sanction he had given; and the part which he was persuaded Emma had taken in the affair, was provoking him exceedingly.†
Chpt 1.7-8
- He was too angry to say another word; her manner too decided to invite supplication; and in this state of swelling resentment, and mutually deep mortification, they had to continue together a few minutes longer, for the fears of Mr. Woodhouse had confined them to a foot-pace.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- It was dreadfully mortifying; but Mr. Elton was proving himself, in many respects, the very reverse of what she had meant and believed him; proud, assuming, conceited; very full of his own claims, and little concerned about the feelings of others.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- For the present, he could not be spared, to his "very great mortification and regret; but still he looked forward with the hope of coming to Randalls at no distant period."†
Chpt 1.17-18
- With the fortitude of a devoted novitiate, she had resolved at one-and-twenty to complete the sacrifice, and retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- Ambition, as well as love, had probably been mortified.†
Chpt 2.3-4
- He had gone away rejected and mortified—disappointed in a very sanguine hope, after a series of what appeared to him strong encouragement; and not only losing the right lady, but finding himself debased to the level of a very wrong one.†
Chpt 2.3-4
- You would not wish to disappoint and mortify the Coles, I am sure, sir; friendly, good sort of people as ever lived, and who have been your neighbours these ten years.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- Jane Fairfax did look and move superior; but Emma suspected she might have been glad to change feelings with Harriet, very glad to have purchased the mortification of having loved—yes, of having loved even Mr. Elton in vain—by the surrender of all the dangerous pleasure of knowing herself beloved by the husband of her friend.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- A real injury to the children—a most mortifying change, and material loss to them all;—a very great deduction from her father's daily comfort—and, as to herself, she could not at all endure the idea of Jane Fairfax at Donwell Abbey.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- And now to chuse the mortification of Mrs. Elton's notice and the penury of her conversation, rather than return to the superior companions who have always loved her with such real, generous affection."†
Chpt 2.15-16
- You are very obliging; but as to all that, I am very indifferent; it would be no object to me to be with the rich; my mortifications, I think, would only be the greater; I should suffer more from comparison.†
Chpt 2.17-18
- Mrs. Weston said no more; and Emma could imagine with what surprize and mortification she must be returning to her seat.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- CHAPTER VI After being long fed with hopes of a speedy visit from Mr. and Mrs. Suckling, the Highbury world were obliged to endure the mortification of hearing that they could not possibly come till the autumn.†
Chpt 3.5-6
- "—Mrs. Weston, I suppose," interrupted Mrs. Elton, rather mortified.†
Chpt 3.5-6
- They were combined only of anger against herself, mortification, and deep concern.†
Chpt 3.7-8
- Never had she felt so agitated, mortified, grieved, at any circumstance in her life.†
Chpt 3.7-8
- Her heart was grieved for a state which seemed but the more pitiable from this sort of irritation of spirits, inconsistency of action, and inequality of powers; and it mortified her that she was given so little credit for proper feeling, or esteemed so little worthy as a friend: but she had the consolation of knowing that her intentions were good, and of being able to say to herself, that could Mr. Knightley have been privy to all her attempts of assisting Jane Fairfax, could he even…†
Chpt 3.9-10
- —she sat still, she walked about, she tried her own room, she tried the shrubbery—in every place, every posture, she perceived that she had acted most weakly; that she had been imposed on by others in a most mortifying degree; that she had been imposing on herself in a degree yet more mortifying; that she was wretched, and should probably find this day but the beginning of wretchedness.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- —she sat still, she walked about, she tried her own room, she tried the shrubbery—in every place, every posture, she perceived that she had acted most weakly; that she had been imposed on by others in a most mortifying degree; that she had been imposing on herself in a degree yet more mortifying; that she was wretched, and should probably find this day but the beginning of wretchedness.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- It was horrible to Emma to think how it must sink him in the general opinion, to foresee the smiles, the sneers, the merriment it would prompt at his expense; the mortification and disdain of his brother, the thousand inconveniences to himself.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- "Thank you," said he, in an accent of deep mortification, and not another syllable followed.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- —It is, in fact, a most mortifying retrospect for me.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Definition:
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(mortified as in: felt mortified) exceedingly embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated