Mortifying
['mɔrtɪs]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortify
(a.) Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.
(a.) Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances.
(a.) Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.
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Examples
- This is mortifying. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And to her the consciousness of having exceeded in words was peculiarly mortifying. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We had better put an end to this most mortifying conference. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- We had got well out on the country road, when a somewhat mortifying incident occurred. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women more horrible than the men. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I dined twice in Wimpole Street, and might have been there oftener, but it is mortifying to be with Rushworth as a brother. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It would be mortifying her severely. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Ve-ry mortifying, is it not? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- To be considered young was complimentary, doubtless, but at six-and-forty to be treated as a boy was sometimes mortifying. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is, in fact, a most mortifying retrospect for me. Jane Austen. Emma.
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