mortification
nounA feeling of shame, humiliation, or wounded pride.
Discipline of the body and the appetites by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially when undertaken for religious reasons.
Death or decay of living tissue; gangrene.
The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified.
The act of subduing the passions and appetites by penance, abstinence, or painful severities infiicted on the body; a severe penance.
