All 4 Uses of
mortified
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- But how could she dare to awaken him, and let him know what he had been doing, when it would mortify him to discover his folly in respect of her?†
Chpt 5
- When at length the collapse was explained to him, a sullen mortification, not usual with Durbeyfield, overpowered the influence of the cheering glass.†
Chpt 5 *
- She could read character sufficiently well to know by this time that she had nothing to fear from her employer's gallantry; it was rather the tyranny induced by his mortification at Clare's treatment of him.†
Chpt 5
- He clenched his lips, mortified with himself for his weakness.†
Chpt 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.