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Recent Examples of mortification What Ventura alleges is more harrowing than anything in the years of cavalier gossip-page and forum rumors about the pair: grievous harm and mortification even as Diddy made bubbly late-night and daytime television appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024 Your book is dealing with that too, this mortification of the flesh and Matrix-y refusal to engage with the body, denying the kids are going to find ways to make out in the bushes. Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024 The radical precision of Kant’s thought comes off as a product of the radical precision (or absurd rigidity) of his habits, which Collin nonetheless loads with pathos—as representing a quest for mental purity via the secular mortification of physicality. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024 Less than three years later, they had been subjected to a ritual mortification. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023 See all Example Sentences for mortification 

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“Mortification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortification. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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