Crossword-Solution: MORTIFICATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mortification | n. | The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified |
| Mortification | n. | 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. |
| Mortification | n. | Destruction of active qualities; neutralization. |
| Mortification | n. | Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body. |
| Mortification | n. | Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation. |
| Mortification | n. | That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation. |
| Mortification | n. | A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain. |
We have 74 clues for the answer “MORTIFICATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| NECROSIS of bone | 1 answer |
| gangrene | 11 answers |
| penitence | 12 answers |
| ASCETICISM | 15 answers |
| TURNING red | 25 answers |
| Calumny | 30 answers |
| subservience | 49 answers |
| shamefacedness | 49 answers |
| worsening | 51 answers |
| ABASEMENT | 51 answers |
| overhanging | 51 answers |
| bashfulness | 51 answers |
| Opprobrium | 52 answers |
| cringing | 52 answers |
| Wallowing | 52 answers |
| grovelling | 53 answers |
| disesteem | 53 answers |
| servility | 54 answers |
| cowering | 54 answers |
| Ignominy | 56 answers |
| Obloquy | 56 answers |
| desecration | 57 answers |
| Disrepute | 58 answers |
| stigma | 58 answers |
| disapprobation | 59 answers |
| Decadence | 61 answers |
| Grief | 61 answers |
| Sadness | 62 answers |
| Sorrow | 62 answers |
| Lamenta-tion | 63 answers |
| Fawning | 63 answers |
| Compunction | 63 answers |
| Anguish | 63 answers |
| slur | 64 answers |
| Scandal | 64 answers |
| austerity | 64 answers |
| Odium | 64 answers |
| Contempt | 65 answers |
| Decay | 65 answers |
| Indignity | 65 answers |
| Disgrace | 65 answers |
| discomfiture | 68 answers |
| forbearing | 68 answers |
| dishonour | 69 answers |
| Humiliation | 70 answers |
| Threat | 70 answers |
| Displeasure | 71 answers |
| Tension | 71 answers |
| Remorse | 72 answers |
| Regret | 72 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MORTIFICATION (5)
Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.
This same shop-door had been a subject of no slight mortification to the present occupant of the august Pyncheon House, as well as to some of her predecessors.
With a volley of awful oaths, his face suffused with the scarlet of mortification and rage, the captain regained his feet, and with a terrific blow felled the sailor to the deck.
The fifth of their number alone tarried in the lists long enough to be greeted by the applauses of the spectators, amongst whom he retreated, to the aggravation, doubtless, of his companions’ mortification.
Rokoff; but until now I had not taken you for a fool.” Rokoff’s eyes narrowed, and the red of mortification flushed out the pallor of his face.
Quotes with MORTIFICATION (3)
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.
So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with mortification. Air, fire, and water combine their united efforts to oppose my passage. Well, they shall see what the earnest will of a determined man can do. I will not yield, I will not retreat even one inch; and we shall see who shall triumph in this great contest - man or nature.
Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea. And if it doesn't destroy it dies. It may be then that one is faced with the desolation of knowing that one has wasted the years of one's life, that one's brought disgrace upon oneself, endured the frightful pang of jealousy, swallowed every bitter mortification, that one's expended all one's tenderness, poured out all the riches of one's soul on a poor drab, a fool, a peg…