I try not to mortify my child by asking questions at the student assembly. From LearnThat.org.
The word mortify here is, literally, to make to die. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Law in the Spiritual World] Reference
"'Yes,' she replied, 'but such as mortify me as much as they must pain you. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described] Reference
“ 'Yes,' she replied, 'but such as mortify me as much as they must pain you. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Western Scenes]
"mortify" -- make dead practically -- "therefore your members which are upon the earth" (Col. 3: 2, 5, R. From Wordnik.com. [The Ministry of the Spirit] Reference
"Let it mortify, then, and be damned," said his lordship. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
To mortify her the more, she was landed at Traitors 'Stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Paine did not hesitate to mortify both these failings in his fellow-men. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
Although she knew it would mortify him, Lottie flung her arms around his neck. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Of Scandal]
You are the first man that ever saw her face; do not, then, mortify her so much. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
They all declared they would rather mortify their bodies than destroy their souls. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
And when this does happen they don't even have to mortify themselves by calling her. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
We, who rigidly uphold the true faith, reject all such luxuries, and mortify our senses. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
She deliberately began to bait Cary -- to say things to annoy her -- to try to mortify her. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
Theirs is a history of coming back from the sort of defeats that would mortify most people. From Wordnik.com. [Out and Down] Reference
He thought Hiram had accomplished little, and he did not wish to mortify him by asking what. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Her Home by-words will come out to mortify her just when she wants most to hide them in her heart. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Accordingly, he dare not be idle, but must work hard to drive out evil lusts and mortify his body. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
His wound, at first very painful, soon began to mortify, and he felt the worms in his still living body!. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Walton The Villain and His Victims] Reference
A tourniquet of this character shuts off all the blood in the limb and if kept on too long the parts may mortify. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
And your father begot you with hand and foot, but should either of them mortify, you pay the surgeon to cut it off. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
"If ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live" -- that is what the withering leaves say. From Wordnik.com. [Parables of the Christ-life] Reference
Letters leading to inescapable conclusions that would mortify a family and turn their wrath against your friend the singer?. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
When they speak they express themselves with an energy and directness which mortify the thin speech of conventional persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Party writers assert that he was brought here in preference to any other spot, in order to mortify the citizens with the sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828] Reference
Whitman refused to follow the example of the saints and sages of old, and mortify or despise the lower self -- the manifestation. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference
Rofflash hastened to mollify the enraged beauty, and did so effectually when he suggested a plan by which she could mortify her rival. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
To this end you are charged to "abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;" to "mortify your members, which are earthly;" to. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
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