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Recent Examples of mortification Whetstone said the power was with the poster and encouraged her mother to be remorseful, express mortification with her actions and work to make amends. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025 Blanding is suing for damages such as stress, humiliation, embarrassment, outrage, mental anguish, fear and mortification, as well as emotional, economic and non-economic damages. Charmaine Patterson, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025 The most delightful of all mortifications is the idea that life, as Carl Jung said, really does begin at 40. Mitch Wallace, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 Soundscapes of the Silenced In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for mortification
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Noun
  • There are more costs — to say nothing of further public embarrassment — to consider.
    Sean Gentille, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • During reunion weekend, former editors and writers also like to see their youthful work through a lens of nostalgia, (sometimes) embarrassment, and joy.
    Joshua Finnell, JSTOR Daily, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • First, your confusion is kind of the point ‒ today's slang is part of an ever-changing lexicon that separates the young from the young-at-heart.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The Department of Homeland Security has detained hundreds of TPS holders from Venezuela nationwide, creating confusion about how the protections are being applied.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Their reward for surviving the first week of class would be a front-row seat to another likely humiliation.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But the most bitter had to be crooner Eddie Fisher, her fourth husband, who suffered the public humiliation of leaving his wife Debbie Reynolds for her (as well as their daughter Carrie), then getting dumped for Burton.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Mortification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortification. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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