Mortification



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 耻辱, 屈辱
• ［英］ n. 耻辱, 屈辱 ( shame, humiliation, chagrin)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Date: 14th century
• 1. the subjection and denial of bodily passions and appetites by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort
• 2. necrosis, gangrene
• 3.
  • a. a sense of humiliation and shame caused by something that wounds one's pride or self-respect
  • b. the cause of such humiliation or shame

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