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MORTIFY
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Traducere în limba română
mortify verb A. tranzitiv
1. a mortifica.
2. a înăbuşi (amorul propriu sau pornirile trupeşti).
3. a jigni, a răni (pe cineva).
mortify verb B. intr. şi refl.
1. a se mortifica.
2. a se consuma, a se stinge.
3. (med., despre o rană) a se cangrena.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Ambition, as well as love, had probably been mortified.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
How impatient, how anxious, how wild I have been on the subject, I will not attempt to describe; how severely mortified, how cruelly disappointed, in not having it finished while I was in London!
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
This delay on the Colonel's side, however, did not seem to offend or mortify his fair companion in the least, for on their breaking up the conference soon afterwards, and moving different ways, Mrs. Jennings very plainly heard Elinor say, and with a voice which shewed her to feel what she said, I shall always think myself very much obliged to you.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
The hall, the dining-room, and all its furniture, were examined and praised; and his commendation of everything would have touched Mrs. Bennet's heart, but for the mortifying supposition of his viewing it all as his own future property.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
He felt the disappointment of the young man, and was mortified to have been the means of promoting it, by the sanction he had given; and the part which he was persuaded Emma had taken in the affair, was provoking him exceedingly.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
She was mortified.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
It mortifies me.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
Sir Thomas would have been deeply mortified by a suspicion of half that his daughters felt on the subject of his return, and would hardly have found consolation in a knowledge of the interest it excited in the breast of another young lady.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
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