Both Uses of
mortified
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- This same shop-door had been a subject of no slight mortification to the present occupant of the august Pyncheon House, as well as to some of her predecessors.†
Chpt 1 *
- "You really mortify me, my dear Miss Phoebe!" he exclaimed, smiling half-sarcastically at her.†
Chpt 14
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.