"Mortify" is a word in ENGLISH
To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of;
to change by chemical action.
To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a
living body; to gangrene.
To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden
desires by religious discipline.
To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of;
to produce gangrene in.
To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to
humble; to depress.
To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the
carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into
subjection; to abase; to humble.
To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the …
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