Mortification
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The first two dances, however, brought a return of distress; they were dances of
mortification
.
More example sentences with word mortification
So you'll remember, people of that era would have had an external electronic device, right, something like this, and they all would have carried one of these around with them, and amongst their biggest fears was the sheer
mortification
that one of these might ring at some inopportune moment.
– sent his popularity soaring, to the
mortification
of many Republican leaders.
She tried, by way of mortification, to eat nothing a whole day.
"Indeed, I can easily comprehend the
mortification
you must have felt in having one so self-willed to deal with," returned the surgeon, glancing his eyes reproachfully at his comrade.
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