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- Mortification - n. - The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified
- Mortification - n. - The death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene.
- Mortification - n. - Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.
- Mortification - n. - Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.
- Mortification - n. - Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.
- Mortification - n. - That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.
- Mortification - n. - A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.
- Gangrene - n. - A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.
- Envy - v. t. - To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
- Fast - v. i. - To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
- Gangrenescent - a. - Tending to mortification or gangrene.