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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    May « 2010 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • But she starts to find some success with younger men, which mortifies her teenage son (the lovable Dan Byrd.)

    Fall TV Preview: EHarmony Edition 2009

  • 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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