All 11 Uses of
mortified
in
Persuasion
- Anne herself would have found the mortifications of it more than she foresaw, and to Sir Walter's feelings they must have been dreadful.†
Chpt 2
- In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world; and Mr and Mrs Musgrove's fond partiality for their own daughters' performance, and total indifference to any other person's, gave her much more pleasure for their sakes, than mortification for her own.†
Chpt 6
- Anne fully submitted, in silent, deep mortification.†
Chpt 7
- Charles Hayter had met with much to disquiet and mortify him in his cousin's behaviour.†
Chpt 9 *
- Captain Wentworth was on the watch for them, and a chaise and four in waiting, stationed for their convenience in the lowest part of the street; but his evident surprise and vexation at the substitution of one sister for the other, the change in his countenance, the astonishment, the expressions begun and suppressed, with which Charles was listened to, made but a mortifying reception of Anne; or must at least convince her that she was valued only as she could be useful to Louisa.†
Chpt 12
- Anne could not immediately get over the shock and mortification of finding such words applied to her father.†
Chpt 21
- She was concerned for the disappointment and pain Lady Russell would be feeling; for the mortifications which must be hanging over her father and sister, and had all the distress of foreseeing many evils, without knowing how to avert any one of them.†
Chpt 22
- It was so humiliating to reflect on the constant deception practised on her father and Elizabeth; to consider the various sources of mortification preparing for them!†
Chpt 22
- How mortifying to feel that it was so!†
Chpt 22
- She had soon the mortification of seeing Mr Elliot withdraw, and no one of proper condition has since presented himself to raise even the unfounded hopes which sunk with him.†
Chpt 24
- It cannot be doubted that Sir Walter and Elizabeth were shocked and mortified by the loss of their companion, and the discovery of their deception in her.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(mortified as in: felt mortified) exceedingly embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated