Both Uses
mortified
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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- He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.†
p. 1.6 *
- It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it; and it may be doubted if, from that day forth, Utterson desired the society of his surviving friend with the same eagerness.†
p. 47.3
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