mortification

/mawr-tuh-fi-key-shuhn/US // ˌmɔr tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌmɔːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən) //

屈辱,屈辱感,堕落,屈辱的代价

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.

nounhumiliation

Synonyms

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!

/mawr-tuh-fi-key-shuhn/US // ˌmɔr tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌmɔːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən) //

屈辱,屈辱感,堕落,屈辱的代价

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.

nounhumiliation

Synonyms

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!