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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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This is the time to love passive mortification which comes, hidden perhaps or barefaced and insolent, when we least expect it.
Last month I urged you to be especially vigilant in your spirit of mortification and penance.
At 19, I suffered a kind of flinching, excruciating mortification.
But I'm so red in the face that I outrival a lobster, and the freshmen mistake my mortification for an admission of guilt.
What to most people would be cause for a minor outbreak of sheepishness can lead Knausgaard to suffer agonies of mortification.
Tears started to sting at my eyes, rising from the storm of fear and anger and mortification that raged somewhere around my stomach.

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