All 4 Uses of
mortified
in
Wuthering Heights
- I've said I did not love her, and rather relished mortifying her vanity now and then: besides, she hurt me extremely; so I started up from my knees, and screamed out, 'Oh, Miss, that's a nasty trick!†
p. 50.3 *
- 'If thou weren't more a lass than a lad, I'd fell thee this minute, I would; pitiful lath of a crater!' retorted the angry boor, retreating, while his face burnt with mingled rage and mortification!†
p. 160.8
- Hareton's chest heaved in silence a minute: he laboured under a severe sense of mortification and wrath, which it was no easy task to suppress.†
p. 219.2
- He reddened — I saw that by the moonlight — dropped his hand from the latch, and skulked off, a picture of mortified vanity.†
p. 181.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortified as in: felt mortified) exceedingly embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
See a comprehensive dictionary for less common senses of mortified including a sense of biological decay, a sense of ascetic self-imposed hardship, and (archaically) to be emotionally numbed.