LekhoriLekhoriThe act of mortifying.
A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
Near-synonym: humiliation
The death of part of the body.
And then there's the fever and the mortification—if it took bad ways he'd quickly be gone.
From Middle English mortificacioun, mortification, from Middle French mortification and its etymon Latin mortificātiō. By surface analysis, mortify + -ication.
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