Both Uses
mortified
in
The Mark of Athena
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- Godly glamour moms who invited your friends over for tea and guy talk—that was just mortifying.†
p. 315.7 *
- It would be mortifying.†
p. 344.3
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