Noun
The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified
The death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene.
Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.
Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.
Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.
That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.
A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe situation of my department has been, for a long time, peculiarly embarrassed. My greatest solicitude and efforts have scarcely satisfied the common exigencies of the service; and I have the mortification to find that, in spite of all my endeavours, the difficulties are every day increasing. Nathanael Greene
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. David Hume
Now, bitter, but useful, mortification is the steppingstone to knowledge, even in a child. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. Alice Thomas Ellis
A self -idea of this sort seems to have three principal elements: the imagination of our appearance to the other person; the imagination of his judgment of that appearance, and some sort of self-feeling, such as pride or mortification. Charles Cooley
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. John Owen