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Definition: Mortification |
MortificationNoun1. Strong feelings of embarrassment. 2. The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mortification" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Mortification \Mor`ti*fi*ca"tion\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression mortificatio killing. See Mortify.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you feel mortified over any deed committed by yourself, is a sign that you will be placed in an unenviable position before those to whom you most wish to appear honorable and just. Financial conditions will fall low. To see mortified flesh, denotes disastrous enterprises and disappointment in love. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Mining | Destruction of active qualities, as in mercury amalgamation. (references) |
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Synonyms: MortificationSynonyms: chagrin (n), gangrene (n), humiliation (n), necrosis (n), sphacelus (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Asceticism | Mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation; penance; fasting; martyrdom. |
Discontent | Disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret; repining, taking on; Verb: heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness; (lamentation); hypercriticism. |
Disease | Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); 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. |
Humility | Modesty; verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down. |
Pain | Annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre; mauvais quart d'heur. |
Annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener; bore, bother, pother, hot water, "sea of troubles", hornet's nest, plague, pest. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mortification |
| English words defined with "mortification": Gangrenescent ♦ indignantly ♦ Sphacelation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mortification": Abuse ♦ Exercise, bodily ♦ Lobster Sauce ♦ Suffocating ♦ Witch. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mortification" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (mortification). |
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George Gordon | To my extreme mortification, I grow wiser every day. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | 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. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | They were combined only of anger against herself, mortification, and deep concern. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But it was to the mortification of touch that he brought the most assiduous ingenuity of inventiveness. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I reflected what a mortification it must prove to me to appear as inconsiderable in this nation as one single Lilliputian would be among us. |
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| "Mortification" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mortification" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 43 | 52,181 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "mortification": self-mortification. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mortification | 67 |
corporal mortification | 14 |
lyrics mortification | 3 |
mortification tab | 2 |
corporal dei mortification opus | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mortification"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | turpërim (blush, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, shame), turp (attaint, bashfulness, black eye, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie upon you, for shame, infamy, obloquy, opprobrium, pudency, reproach, shame, stain, stigma, taint, turpitude), sakrifikim (sacrifice), prekje në sedër, përulje (cringe, debasement, humility, indignity, kotow, kowtow, subservience), ndrydhje e vetes, gangrenë (gangrene). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كبح الشهوات, تنسك (abnegation, become an ascetic, mortify, renounce), عار (bare, black eye, denuded, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, naked, nude, obloquy, outrage, reflection, reflexion, reproach, scandal, shame, stark naked, starkers, taint, unclad, uncovered), الأكال, إماتة الجسد, إهانة (affront, crinkle, degradation, despite, dishonor, dishonour, flout, indignity, injury, insolence, insult, offence, reflection, reflexion, slap, slur, tawdriness, umbrage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | усмиряване, унижение (abjection, come down, debasement, derogation, humiliation, ignominy, indignity, prostration), унижаване (abasement, humiliation, prostration), сподавяне (suppression), гангренясване (necrosis), огорчение (embitterment, grief, pain, smart), мортификация, потъпкване (repression, stamping, suppression, trampling on, violation), покруса (affliction, despair, grief). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | umrtvování, ponížení (abasement, abjection, degradation, humiliation, indignity, prostration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mortification, humiliation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | demütigung (abasement, humiliation, indignity), Kränkung (abuse, injury, insult, insulting, offending, offense, slight, wound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γάγγραινα (gangrene), νέκρωση (necrosis), προσβολή (affront, assault, attack, blow, derogation, indignity, insult, invective, offence, outrage, slur, stroke, umbrage), ταπείνωση (abasement, abjection, humiliation, ignominy, prostrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "מת" (killing), "שפל" (abjection, degradation, dumiliation, humiliation, indignity, slumping), ס'וף (afflicted, affliction, suffering, torture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sanyargatás (mortifying), sérelem (damnification, detriment, gravamen, grievance, harm, injury, lesion, offence, prejudice, tort, wrong), lealázás, elhalás (necrosis), üszkösödés (gangrene, putrescence), önsanyargatás (asceticism, mortifying, penance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | malu (bashful, shame, shy), aib (dishonor, scandal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mortificazione (chagrin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 苦渋 (affliction, bitterness, difficulty in understanding, distress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くぎょう (austerities, court noble, Imperial Court, penance, the nobility), くじゅう (affliction, bitter experience, bitterness, difficulty in understanding, distress, ninety), ゆうも" (anguish, opening of stomach into duodenum, pylorus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | nearey (confusedness, disgrace, embarrassment, ignominy, mortified, opprobrium, self-consciousness, shame, shamefulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortificationmay mortificação (chagrin), maceração (maceration), vergonha (black eye, crying shame a, disgrace, indignity, obloquy, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shame, stigma), necrose (canker, necrosis), humilhação (abasement, abasements, abjection, snub, take-down), gangrena (canker, gangrene), flagelação (flagellation). (various references) mortificare, umilire (abasement, contumely, crouch, humiliation, stoop), ofensã (cut, humiliation, indignity, injury, offence, sin, slap, slur, wound), chinuire (tormenting), înjosire (abasement, debasement, humbling, humiliation). (various references) укрощение, унижение (abaissement, abasement, debasement, degradation, derogation, humilliation, indignity), смирение, разочарование (disappointment, disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment, letdown), гангрена (gangrene), огорчение (affliction, chagrin, infliction), омертвение (necrosis, sphacelate), некроз (necrosis), пожертвование (donation, endowment, offering), подавление (inhibition, repression, suppression, suppressions). (various references) mučenje (agony, anguish, excruciation, pangs, racking, torture), teška uvreda, poniženje (abasement, degradation, humiliation, humility, indignity). (various references) mortificación (chagrin). (various references) kallbrand (gangrene), harm (grudge, indignation, resentment), förödmjukelse (abasement, abjection, abjectness, humiliation, indignity). (various references) onuru kırılma, kangren (gangrene, necrosis, sphacelation), aşağılama (abasement, contempt, contemptuousness, disparagement, humiliation, insolence, insult, opprobrium). (various references) утихомирення (pacification), змертвіння, приниження (abasement, abjection, climb down, come down, debasement, depreciation, detraction, humiliation, stoop), приборкання. (various references) sự xấu hổ, sự mất thể diện (discredit), sự h nh xác điều sỉ nhục. (various references) marwhad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mortification": mortifications. (additional references) | |
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"Mortification" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mortifacation, mortificatio. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "mortification" (pronounced 'Mor`ti*fi*ca"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-i-i-m-n-o-o-r-t-t" | |
-4 letters: formation, imitation, initiator, manicotti, mortician, triatomic. | |
-5 letters: acromion, amitotic, amniotic, antiriot, citation, fraction, friction, imitator, intromit, monocrat, morainic, romantic, rotation, traction. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-i-i-m-n-o-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: mortifications. | |
+5 letters: transmogrification. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 72 74 69 66 69 63 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .-. - .. ..-. .. -.-. .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101001 01100110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o r t i f i c a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0072 0074 0069 0066 0069 0063 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818486757275696786758180 |
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