All 5 Uses of
mortified
in
The Idiot
- He had often tried to imagine such an event, but had found the picture too mortifying and exasperating, and had quietly dropped it.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- He was very deeply mortified.†
Chpt 2.1
- But at that time I would soak my pillow at night with tears of mortification, and tear at my blanket in my rage and fury.†
Chpt 3.5
- Of those who were present, such as knew the prince listened to his outburst in a state of alarm, some with a feeling of mortification.†
Chpt 4.7
- But one very curious fact was that all the shame and vexation and mortification which he felt over the accident were less powerful than the deep impression of the almost supernatural truth of his premonition.†
Chpt 4.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortified as in: felt mortified) exceedingly embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) See a comprehensive dictionary for less common senses of mortified including a sense of biological decay, and a sense of ascetic self-imposed hardship.