Definition of Mortification
Mortification
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.
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Mortification Quotations
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
John Owen
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
John Owen
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
Raoul Vaneigem
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