Page 50 modification of structure occurs, to which the term mortification is applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

The consuming progress of mortification is the image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Belinda assured her that she felt no mortification from the disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belinda] Reference

John Baptist appears no way inferior to him in mortification; this therefore is that Elias that was to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

To the supposed originals, however obscure, the mortification is the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference

Buddhists chiefly in emphasizing the importance of self-mortification, which is put on a par with meditation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1] Reference

Multiplying the mortification was the furious flight of the American commander, 53-year-old Horatio "Granny" Gates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New American] Reference

He was suffering from mortification, which is a sort of ingrowing anger, and the more it sunk in, the angrier he got.    From Wordnik.com.  [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference

On the instant those at the table were keyed up and expectant, the servant was smugly pleased, and he was wallowing in mortification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

I have only, then, to add the heads of the work of the Spirit in this business of mortification, which is so peculiarly ascribed to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers] Reference

The mortification is more than she deserves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanford's wife: He's earned a second chance] Reference

That gangrene of the tissues ( "mortification" as our older writers called it) has occurred is soon made evident to the veterinarian by the symptoms shown by the patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

"But the mortification was the least of my worries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rezánov] Reference

Miss: your mortification will be the greater; that’s all, child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

She claims "mortification" over the idea that these teen boys have seen her films.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In contemporary evangelicalism, words such as "mortification" and "self-denial" are not fashionable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heidelblog] Reference

It is only the self-mortification which is always unintelligent, and a dash of superstition that is undertoned and repining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, It Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.] Reference

It was a national mortification, a 5-1 thrashing at the feet of England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clash Of The Titans] Reference

Her mortification is complete when he dumps her and leaves her pregnant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transatlantic Travelers] Reference

Would you expect a businessman or a scholar to go through such ignominy and mortification?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Blair's Legacy] Reference

Yet of all her personal virtues none was more extraordinary than her spirit of mortification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

The other is the red face we'd like to see on the guilty -- a face of remorse, even mortification.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return Of Shame] Reference

And don't imagine this current embarrassment, this mortification, will result in significant change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madness To Sadness] Reference

Sisters and pupils; but she objected on account of her love of poverty, humility, and mortification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

In the video, repeated shots of the singer's gusset add to the concomitant air of empowerment/mortification.    From Wordnik.com.  [This week's new singles] Reference

But, when he broached this subject, he had the mortification to find that she was less impatient than himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He deconstructed "Wichita Lineman" one night at the Songwriters Hall of Fame line-by-line, to my intense mortification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimmy Webb: The Songwriter Steps Behind The Mic] Reference

Clare gave the pedlar project a fair trial, but it brought him little beyond fatigue, mortification, and disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

As Brown once put it: "The 12th rule is to let him in all things seek his greater mortification and continuing abnegation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fewer incumbent governors are seeking reelection] Reference

Her beautiful and well-concealed spirit of mortification made her correspond faithfully to the motions of grace which Divine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

  "You getting snockered and I die of mortification, or you have a doppelganger and drown in the Bay of Spezia with Shelley?".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Drifter Doppelganger] Reference

These, and innumerable other practices of mortification, were constantly observed by the greater part of the community from the beginning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference