mortification
noun
mor·ti·fi·ca·tion
ˌmȯr-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən 
1
a
: a sense of humiliation and shame caused by something that wounds one's pride or self-respect
the mortification of being jilted by a little boarding-school girl—
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b
: the cause of such humiliation or shame
3
: the subjection and denial of bodily passions and appetites by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort
was customary to practice mortification during Lent
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the mortification of being dumped the night before the prom
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Soundscapes of the Silenced In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification.
—Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
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—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
What Ventura alleges is more harrowing than anything in the years of cavalier gossip-page and forum rumors about the pair: grievous harm and mortification even as Diddy made bubbly late-night and daytime television appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
Your book is dealing with that too, this mortification of the flesh and Matrix-y refusal to engage with the body, denying the kids are going to find ways to make out in the bushes.
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Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
Sylvie saves everyone from further mortification by picking up the check.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
What Ventura alleges is more harrowing than anything in the years of cavalier gossip-page and forum rumors about the pair: grievous harm and mortification even as Diddy made bubbly late-night and daytime television appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
Your book is dealing with that too, this mortification of the flesh and Matrix-y refusal to engage with the body, denying the kids are going to find ways to make out in the bushes.
—Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
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mortification
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mor·ti·fi·ca·tion
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