Mortifies
[mɔ:tə,faɪz]
Examples
- It mortifies me. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I ought to have read more, for I find I don't know anything, and it mortifies me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The pride of man makes him love to domineer, and nothing mortifies him so much as to be obliged to condescend to persuade his inferiors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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