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MORTIFICATION

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mortification substantiv

1. umilire, înăbuşire a amorului propriu.

2. suferinţă în urma unei jigniri sau înjosiri

3. mortificare, mortificaţie, sacrificiu, chin (pentru un scop de obicei religios).

4. (med.) cangrenă, necroză.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Mrs. Weston said no more; and Emma could imagine with what surprize and mortification she must be returning to her seat.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world; and Mr and Mrs Musgrove's fond partiality for their own daughters' performance, and total indifference to any other person's, gave her much more pleasure for their sakes, than mortification for her own.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family, for that generous compassion which induced you to take so much trouble, and bear so many mortifications, for the sake of discovering them.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

This compliment, delightful as it was, produced severe mortification to the lady; and in giving her denial, she expressed her sorrow on the occasion so very much as if she really felt it that had Thorpe, who joined her just afterwards, been half a minute earlier, he might have thought her sufferings rather too acute.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

But he had ended his speech in a way to sink her in sad mortification, by adding, If William does come to Mansfield, I hope you may be able to convince him that the many years which have passed since you parted have not been spent on your side entirely without improvement; though, I fear, he must find his sister at sixteen in some respects too much like his sister at ten.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

You are very obliging; but as to all that, I am very indifferent; it would be no object to me to be with the rich; my mortifications, I think, would only be the greater; I should suffer more from comparison.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

But not long was the interval of tranquillity; for, when supper was over, singing was talked of, and she had the mortification of seeing Mary, after very little entreaty, preparing to oblige the company.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday have now passed in review before the reader; the events of each day, its hopes and fears, mortifications and pleasures, have been separately stated, and the pangs of Sunday only now remain to be described, and close the week.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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