mortification 的定义
- a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.
- a cause or source of such humiliation or shame.
- the practice of asceticism by penitential discipline to overcome desire for sin and to strengthen the will.
- Pathology. the death of one part of the body while the rest is alive; gangrene; necrosis.
mortification 近义词
humiliation
mortification 的近义词 15 个
- abasement
- affront
- chagrin
- condescension
- degradation
- disgrace
- dishonor
- embarrassment
- ignominy
- put-down
- resignation
- shame
- bring down
- humbling
- loss of face
mortification 的反义词 3 个
更多mortification例句
- At a high school basketball game, for example, she will VERY loudly criticize a player, to the mortification of those sitting next to her.
- “Hey, muffins,” he calls to his children, with a “wince of mortification” at the whole scene.
- Bernard sat thinking for a long time; at first with a good deal of mortification—at last with a good deal of bitterness.
- On the other hand, his feet are so cold from the artery being severed that they anticipate mortification.
- Two years before her death Mrs. Otis was glad to bury her mortification and misery in Rosewater.
- A short triumph will be followed by a deep mortification, and the selfishness of their aims defeats itself.
- We might as well run a hospital on the plan of never consenting to admit any case until mortification had set in!