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MORTIFIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride
Example:
felt mortified by the comparison with her sister
Synonyms:
embarrassed; humiliated; mortified
Classified under:
Similar:
ashamed (feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Suffering from tissue death
Synonyms:
gangrenous; mortified
Classified under:
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb mortify
Context examples:
I should be mortified indeed if I did not believe I had been of some use; but it is not every body who will bestow praise where they may.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His going, though only eight miles, will be an unwelcome contraction of our family circle; but I should have been deeply mortified if any son of mine could reconcile himself to doing less.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Miss Tilney drew back directly, and the heavy doors were closed upon the mortified Catherine, who, having seen, in a momentary glance beyond them, a narrower passage, more numerous openings, and symptoms of a winding staircase, believed herself at last within the reach of something worth her notice; and felt, as she unwillingly paced back the gallery, that she would rather be allowed to examine that end of the house than see all the finery of all the rest.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Her father had most cruelly mortified her, by what he said of Mr. Darcy's indifference, and she could do nothing but wonder at such a want of penetration, or fear that perhaps, instead of his seeing too little, she might have fancied too much.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Now, if she had been the heroine of a moral storybook, she ought at this period of her life to have become quite saintly, renounced the world, and gone about doing good in a mortified bonnet, with tracts in her pocket.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
His coldness and reserve mortified her severely; she was vexed and half angry; but resolving to regulate her behaviour to him by the past rather than the present, she avoided every appearance of resentment or displeasure, and treated him as she thought he ought to be treated from the family connection.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Nothing angered and mortified me so much as the queen’s dwarf; who being of the lowest stature that was ever in that country (for I verily think he was not full thirty feet high), became so insolent at seeing a creature so much beneath him, that he would always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by me in the queen’s antechamber, while I was standing on some table talking with the lords or ladies of the court, and he seldom failed of a smart word or two upon my littleness; against which I could only revenge myself by calling him brother, challenging him to wrestle, and such repartees as are usually in the mouths of court pages.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Never had she felt so agitated, mortified, grieved, at any circumstance in her life.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
There was no positive ill-nature in Maria or Julia; and though Fanny was often mortified by their treatment of her, she thought too lowly of her own claims to feel injured by it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
There were few people on whose secrecy she would have more confidently depended; but, at the same time, there was no one whose knowledge of a sister's frailty would have mortified her so much—not, however, from any fear of disadvantage from it individually to herself, for, at any rate, there seemed a gulf impassable between them.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
