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Sentence Examples
| People who mortify the body in some way will always command a voyeuristic interest. |
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| And to pray and to mortify oneself is also to take care of others and to forget oneself. |
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| He doesn't give to crush or mortify us, or to exert His supremacy over us, but to elevate us and draw us to Himself, to create communion. |
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| You must love, venerate, pray and mortify yourself for the Pope, and do so with greater affection each day. |
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| These ions are suitable to attack the cellular metabolic systems that primitive organisms mortify. |
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| Perhaps even for the desire to mortify an ambition that certainly he should possess in his youth. |
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| They dont have enough understanding to mortify the deeds of their flesh and daily die out to self. |
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| I understand well the idea of abandoning the ego, but do we have to mortify ourselves? |
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| The report said that the Arab Janjaweed see attacking African women as a way to mortify African rebel groups. |
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| Make your brothers understand that they do not need to mortify or lacerate their bodies to move my Spirit and awaken my pity or charity. |
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| If McCain had done just a little better, Palin might have had a chance to fidget at the State of the Union and mortify Americans with her behavior at state funerals. |
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| Disinfection is the inactivation or mortify of pathogen microorganisms. |
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| While most children will blithely relate intimate family things that would mortify their parents, children who grow up with woman abuse or child maltreatment are just the opposite. |
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| Contrive fiendishly cruel and resourceful ways to mortify them. |
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| In this, as in so many other circumstances in life, we have to practise the virtue of temperance, which requires us to mortify the appetite of gluttony. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Dat correspondence mortify me might'ly' cuz I hadn' raised P'laski no sich a ways as dat. |
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| The intention is, I tell you plainly, to mortify you into a sense of your duty. |
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| It is for this that these men mortify their flesh, and to set us an example, who would pamper ourselves overmuch. |
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| On the contrary, he seemed to redouble his efforts to mortify his son. |
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| If ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. |
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| But your kings do not allow so small a thing to vex or mortify them. |
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| Though I showed nothing of it, it served only to mortify me. |
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| To mortify her the more, she was landed at Traitors' Stairs. |
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| But she passed the matter over in silence, not caring to mortify him. |
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| I did not wish to mortify the old gentleman and spoil his shortlived joy. |
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| However, I will be revenged on her somehow, and I beg you will give me your help in the matter, and to tell me anything that you can think of that is likely to mortify her. |
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| Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands. |
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