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# mortification

«mortification» in Mova's school dictionary: **a deep feeling of shame or humiliation, often mixed with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Mortification is a deep feeling of shame or humiliation, often mixed with anger, when someone has been shamed or let down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortification/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a proud or wicked person, such as a stepmother, is filled with rage and mortification when things go wrong or she is shown up

### examples

- When the wicked woman heard these words, she was beside herself with rage and mortification. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortification/#x1)
- His mortification was plain when everyone laughed at his mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortification/#x2)
- She hid her mortification behind a smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortification/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; it names a feeling, not a count.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mortification» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortification/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.