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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mortify .
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Whether the idea mortifies you or intrigues you, it's out there in cyberspace and it's for real.
Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton 2010
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Whether the idea mortifies you or intrigues you, it's out there in cyberspace and it's for real.
Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton 2010
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Death means also all that right now prepares and anticipates our death: humiliations, failures, sickness that cripples us, limits due to age or health, everything that 'mortifies' us. "
Top Stories 2010
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The formula is pretty basic but very productive: horrible little Shinchan shocks and mortifies the adults around him with his complete lack of anything resembling a filter.
CMX-cellence 2010
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The formula is pretty basic but very productive: horrible little Shinchan shocks and mortifies the adults around him with his complete lack of anything resembling a filter.
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In one act of mortification one can practice many virtues, according to the different ends which one proposes in each act, as for example: 1. He who mortifies his body for the purpose of checking concupiscence, performs an act of the virtue of temperance.
Archive 2009-03-15 Esther 2009
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In one act of mortification one can practice many virtues, according to the different ends which one proposes in each act, as for example: 1. He who mortifies his body for the purpose of checking concupiscence, performs an act of the virtue of temperance.
The Way to Mortification Esther 2009
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If he mortifies himself for the sake of pleasing God more and more, it will be an act of love of God.
The Way to Mortification Esther 2009
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But she starts to find some success with younger men, which mortifies her teenage son (the lovable Dan Byrd.)
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If he mortifies himself for the sake of pleasing God more and more, it will be an act of love of God.
Archive 2009-03-15 Esther 2009
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