Examples of mortify

• The same attempts to mortify and alter the self and the identities of the person with dementia were found in our study.

• He is progressively mortified, literally and figuratively, by the aliment that has constituted him and filled him and that has failed to find an outlet.

• What the film exacts from its audience is not com-passion for a peer, but a purely sentimental pity, kept at a distance by a stoic and ultimately mortifying narrative conclusion.

• At the end of the interview, she reminded me that this was told in confidence, that she would be ' mortified ' if others in her life knew.

• I also think that every modern and humane employer is mortified at the thought that men should be hurt or disabled through their own fault.

• Even they have gone back completely opposed to this scheme and completely mortified by what happened.

• In other areas it will mortify, as we have seen other educational movements mortify.

• Suffice it to say that there will always be, especially in criminal cases, bitter accusation and counteraccusation, and someone may well be mortified by it.