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Definition of Mortifying
1. Adjective. Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation. "It was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
2. Adjective. Causing awareness of your shortcomings. "Golf is a humbling game"
Definition of Mortifying
1. a. Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.
Definition of Mortifying
1. Verb. (present participle of mortify) ¹
2. Adjective. Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mortifying
1. mortify [v] - See also: mortify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mortifying
Literary usage of Mortifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems by Edward Sandford Martin (1914)
"A mortifying SUBJECT WHAT is to be, I do not know: What is, I do esteem To be so
undesirable And worthless, that I deem There must be something good in ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(32) Aurelian, who considered the war as totally extinguished, received the
mortifying intelligence of the escape of the ..."
3. The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George by Tobias George Smollett (1800)
"His conduct was no lets agreeable to his Sovereign, than mortifying to the Dutch,
who never dreamed of leaving Ghent and Bruges in the hands of the ..."
4. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain by William Hickling Prescott (1882)
"But, notwithstanding the mortifying results of so many prognostics and preparations,
and the ridicule which attached to it, Mary still cherished the ..."
5. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by John Hawkins (1787)
"... to politics, and even to morality, altogether indifferent. Nor could he be
ignorant of that mortifying dependence which the ..."
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