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mortification
noun
1 mortification
Strong feelings of embarrassment.
synonyms: chagrin, humiliation.
Roget 830:
painfulness
etc.
adj.;
trouble,
care
etc.
(pain)
828;
trial;
affliction,
infliction;
blow,
stroke,
burden,
load,
curse;
bitter pill,
bitter draught;
waters of bitterness.
annoyance,
grievance,
nuisance,
vexation,
mortification,
sickener†;
bore,
bother,
pother,
hot water,
sea of troubles"
[Hamlet],
hornet's nest,
plague,
pest.
cancer,
ulcer,
sting,
thorn;
canker
etc.
(bane)
663;
scorpion
etc.
(evil doer)
913;
dagger
etc.
(arms)
727;
scourge
etc.
(instrument of punishment)
975;
carking care,
canker worm of care.
mishap,
misfortune
etc.
(adversity)
735;
desagrement [Fr.],
esclandre [Fr.],
rub.
source of irritation,
source of annoyance;
wound,
open sore;
sore subject,
skeleton in the closet;
thorn in the flesh,
thorn in one's side;
where the shoe pinches,
gall and wormwood.
sorry sight,
heavy news,
provocation;
affront
etc.
929;
head and front of one's offending"
[Othello].
infestation,
molestation;
malignity
etc.
(malevolence)
907.
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Roget 955:
asceticism,
puritanism,
sabbatarianism†;
cynicism†,
austerity;
total abstinence;
nephalism†.
mortification,
maceration,
sackcloth and ashes,
flagellation;
penance
etc.
952;
fasting
etc.
956;
martyrdom.
ascetic;
anchoret†,
anchorite;
martyr;
Heautontimorumenos†;
hermit
etc.
(recluse)
893;
puritan,
sabbatarian†,
cynic,
sanyasi†,
yogi.
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Roget 832:
discontent,
discontentment;
dissatisfaction;
dissent
etc.
489.
disappointment,
mortification;
cold comfort;
regret
etc.
833;
repining,
taking on
etc.
v.;
heart-burning,
heart-grief;
querulousness
etc.
(lamentation)
839;
hypercriticism.
inquietude,
vexation of spirit,
soreness;
worry,
concern,
fear
etc.
860.
[person who is discontented]
malcontent,
grumbler,
growler,
croaker,
dissident,
dissenter,
laudator temporis acti [Lat.];
censurer,
complainer,
fault-finder,
murmerer†.
cave of Adullam†,
indignation meeting,
winter of our discontent"
[Henry VI];
with what I most enjoy contented least"
[Shakespeare].
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Roget 828:
mental suffering,
pain,
dolor;
suffering,
sufferance;
ache,
smart
etc.
(physical pain)
378;
passion.
displeasure,
dissatisfaction,
discomfort,
discomposure,
disquiet;
malaise;
inquietude,
uneasiness,
vexation of spirit;
taking;
discontent
etc.
832.
dejection
etc.
837;
weariness
etc.
841;
anhedonia†.
annoyance,
irritation,
worry,
infliction,
visitation;
plague,
bore;
bother,
botheration;
stew,
vexation,
mortification,
chagrin,
esclandre [Fr.];
mauvais quart d'heur [Fr.].
care,
anxiety,
solicitude,
trouble,
trial,
ordeal,
fiery ordeal,
shock,
blow,
cark†,
dole,
fret,
burden,
load.
concern,
grief,
sorrow,
distress,
affliction,
woe,
bitterness,
heartache;
carking cares;
heavy heart,
aching heart,
bleeding heart,
broken heart;
heavy affliction,
gnawing grief.
unhappiness,
infelicity,
misery,
tribulation,
wretchedness,
desolation;
despair
etc.
859;
extremity,
prostration,
depth of misery.
nightmare,
ephialtes†,
incubus.
pang,
anguish,
agony;
torture,
torment;
purgatory
etc.
(hell)
982.
hell upon earth;
iron age,
reign of terror;
slough of despond
etc.
(adversity)
735;
peck of troubles;
ills that flesh is heir to"
etc.
(evil)
619
[Hamlet];
miseries of human life;
unkindest cut of all"
[Julius Caesar].
sufferer,
victim,
prey,
martyr,
object of compassion,
wretch,
shorn lamb.
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Roget 879:
humility,
humbleness;
meekness,
lowness;
lowliness,
lowlihood†;
abasement,
self-abasement;
submission
etc.
725;
resignation.
condescension;
affability
etc.
(courtesy)
894.
modesty
etc.
881;
verecundity†,
blush,
suffusion,
confusion;
sense of shame,
sense of disgrace;
humiliation,
mortification;
let down,
set down.
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Dutch: irritatie, verdriet
Polish: upokorzenie, poniżenie
2 mortification
The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply).
synonyms: gangrene, necrosis, sphacelus.
Roget 655:
disease;
illness,
sickness
etc.
adj.;
ailing
&c.;
all the ills that flesh is heir to"
[Hamlet];
morbidity,
morbosity†;
infirmity,
ailment,
indisposition;
complaint,
disorder,
malady;
distemper,
distemperature†.
visitation,
attack,
seizure,
stroke,
fit.
delicacy,
loss of health,
invalidation,
cachexy†;
cachexia [Med.],
atrophy,
marasmus†;
indigestion,
dyspepsia;
decay
etc.
(deterioration)
659;
decline,
consumption,
palsy,
paralysis,
prostration.
taint,
pollution,
infection,
sepsis,
septicity†,
infestation;
epidemic,
pandemic,
endemic,
epizootic;
murrain,
plague,
pestilence,
pox.
sore,
ulcer,
abscess,
fester,
boil;
pimple,
wen
etc.
(swelling)
250;
carbuncle,
gathering,
imposthume†,
peccant humor,
issue;
rot,
canker,
cold sore,
fever sore;
cancer,
carcinoma,
leukemia,
neoplastic disease,
malignancy,
tumor;
caries,
mortification,
corruption,
gangrene,
sphacelus†,
sphacelation†,
leprosy;
eruption,
rash,
breaking out.
fever,
temperature,
calenture†;
inflammation.
ague,
angina pectoris [Lat.],
appendicitis;
Asiatic cholera†,
spasmodic cholera;
biliary calculus,
kidney stone,
black death,
bubonic plague,
pneumonic plague;
blennorrhagia†,
blennorrhoea†;
blood poisoning,
bloodstroke†,
bloody flux,
brash;
breakbone fever†,
dengue fever,
malarial fever,
Q-fever;
heart attack,
cardiac arrest,
cardiomyopathy [Med.];
hardening of the arteries,
arteriosclerosis,
atherosclerosis;
bronchocele [Med.],
canker rash,
cardialgia [Med.],
carditis [Med.],
endocarditis [Med.];
cholera,
asphyxia;
chlorosis,
chorea,
cynanche†,
dartre [Fr.];
enanthem†,
enanthema†;
erysipelas;
exanthem†,
exanthema;
gallstone,
goiter,
gonorrhea,
green sickness;
grip,
grippe,
influenza,
flu;
hay fever,
heartburn,
heaves,
rupture,
hernia,
hemorrhoids,
piles,
herpes,
itch,
king's evil,
lockjaw;
measles,
mumps†,
polio;
necrosis,
pertussis,
phthisis†,
pneumonia,
psora†,
pyaemia†,
pyrosis [Med.],
quinsy,
rachitis†,
ringworm,
rubeola,
St. Vitus's dance,
scabies,
scarlatina,
scarlet fever,
scrofula,
seasickness,
struma†,
syntexis†,
tetanus,
tetter†,
tonsillitis,
tonsilitis†,
tracheocele [Med.],
trachoma,
trismus [Med.],
varicella [Med.],
varicosis [Med.],
variola [Med.],
water qualm,
whooping cough;
yellow fever,
yellow jack.
fatal disease
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
dangerous illness,
galloping consumption,
churchyard cough;
general breaking up,
break up of the system.
[Disease of mind]
idiocy
etc.
499;
insanity
etc.
503.
martyr to disease;
cripple;
the halt the lame and the blind;"
valetudinary†,
valetudinarian;
invalid,
patient,
case;
sickroom,
sick-chamber.
[Science of disease]
pathology,
etiology,
nosology†.
[Veterinary]
anthrax,
bighead;
blackleg,
blackquarter†;
cattle plague,
glanders†,
mange,
scrapie,
milk sickness;
heartworm,
feline leukemia,
roundworms;
quarter-evil,
quarter-ill;
rinderpest.
[disease-causing agents]
virus,
bacterium,
bacteria.
[types of viruses]
DNA virus;
RNA virus.
[RNA viruses]
rhinovirus;
rhabdovirus;
picornavirus.
[DNA viruses]
herpesvirus;
cytomegalovirus,
CMV;
human immunodefficiency virus,
HIV.
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Dutch: gangreen, necrose, afsterving
Polish: martwica, nekroza
3 mortification
An instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect.
synonym: humiliation.
Polish: upokorzenie
4 mortification
Christianity The act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself).
Moby thesaurus: Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur, abasement, abashment, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, awkwardness, caries, carrion, chagrin, cold purgatorial fires, comedown, confusion, debasement, decay, decomposition, deflation, descent, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, discountenance, disgrace, distress, disturbance, dry gangrene, dry rot, dump, embarrassment, eremitism, fasting, flagellation, foulness, gangrene, gas gangrene, hair shirt, hangdog look, humbled pride, humiliation, letdown, lustration, maceration, mendicantism, moist gangrene, monachism, monasticism, necrosis, necrotic tissue, noma, penance, penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, purgation, purgatory, puritanism, put-down, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, rancidity, rancidness, rankness, repentance, rigor, rot, rottenness, sackcloth and ashes, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-diminishment, self-mortification, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, slough, sphacelation, sphacelus, spoilage, tooth decay, voluntary poverty ... show more.
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