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mortified
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The Odyssey
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- Daydreaming so as he sat among the suitors,
he glimpsed Athena now
and straight to the porch he went, mortified
that a guest might still be standing at the doors.†p. 81.5 - You should be ashamed yourselves,
mortified in the face of neighbors living round about!†p. 95.5 * - Scarring his own body with mortifying strokes,
throwing filthy rags on his back like any slave,
he slipped into the enemy's city, roamed its streets—
all disguised, a totally different man, a beggar,
hardly the figure he cut among Achaea's ships.†p. 132.3 - But there's something else that mortifies me now.†
p. 384.7
- It's less the marriage that mortifies me now—
that's galling too, but lots of women are left,
some in seagirt Ithaca, some in other cities.†p. 432.4
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