All 9 Uses
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Year of Wonders
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- And surely the poor man looked mortified the next day, afraid that he had irrevocably offended me.†
Chpt 2 *
- But he was smiling his big open smile, and he looked down deferentially when he grasped my mortified state.†
Chpt 2
- I was too surprised and mortified by the rector's sudden appearance to make any civil reply to him.†
Chpt 4
- Mortified, I crumpled at my father's feet and, in a tiny voice, begged his pardon.†
Chpt 8
- Shock, relief, and mortification all descended upon me at once, and with such force that I burst into tears.†
Chpt 9
- I colored then, in mortification and anger both.†
Chpt 11
- I was mortified to have been the cause of his witnessing the coupling, and to have been witness, in turn, to his strange fit—so unlike anything I knew of him.†
Chpt 12
- He proclaimed that her weakness and her failure to make adequate penance would force them to mortify their flesh all the more severely.†
Chpt 12
- So John Gordon's flesh was mortified in death as in life, lying naked under the sky, left to the untender mercies of Nature.†
Chpt 12
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