mortify

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The word mortify here is, literally, to make to die.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride; humiliate.
  2. transitive verb To discipline (one's body and physical appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation.
  3. intransitive verb To practice ascetic discipline or self-denial of the body and its appetites.
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  • Yes, I couldn´t think of one good reason to impoverish, mortify, fracture or freeze myself for the sake of another ride in the chariots of the Nordic Gods. —  American Chronicle
  • What do we conclude, he continues, when the surgeon sees the flesh about to mortify, and does not cut it away? —  Latest Articles
  • MANILA (Office of Sen. Pimentel / 24 Feb) -- "If the press has the right to offend or to mortify, the people should have the right to reply." —  MindaNews Feeds
  • “If ye through the Spirit mortify,” &c.; Stronger is he that is in you than he that is in the world. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • The word mortify here is, literally, to make to die. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
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  1. Middle English mortifien, to deaden, subdue, from Old French mortifier, from Latin mortificāre, to kill : mors, mort-, death; see mer- in Indo-European roots + -ficāre, -fy.

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  1. from Middle English mortifien, mortefien, from Old French mortifier, mortefier, French mortifier = Spanish Portuguese mortificar = Italian mortificare, from Late Latin mortificare, kill, destroy; cf. mortificus, deadly, fatal, from Latin mor(t-)s, death, + facere, make.
 

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