mortification

A 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.

Humiliation; vexation; the state of being humbled or depressed, as by disappointment or vexation; chagrin.

(d ) In chem. and metallurgy, the destruction of active qualities (now called sickening both in the United States and in Australia, with especial reference to quicksilver and amalgamation).

In Scots law, the act of disposing of lands for religious or charitable purposes.

That which mortifies; a cause of chagrin, humiliation, or vexation.

In Scots law, lands given formerly to the church for religious purposes, or since the Reformation for charitable or public uses.