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What does mortification mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of mortifying.
  2. A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
  3. (medicine) The death of part of the body.
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At 19, I suffered a kind of flinching, excruciating mortification.
A series of masterpieces followed, stories of male mortification leading to self-destruction.
But I'm so red in the face that I outrival a lobster, and the freshmen mistake my mortification for an admission of guilt.
Scott's words on finding that he had been beaten reveal his bitter mortification and sense of failure.
When she re-emerged to the sounds of chortling, her face was red as a beet with mortification.
His descriptions of the practice of corporal mortification is also inaccurate, as is his representation of the cilice and the discipline.

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