self-mortifying
51Dēvara Dāsimayya — (Jedara Dāsimayya) (10th century) Dēvara Dāsimayya was one of the poet saints of the Vīra´saiva reform movement within Hinduism. He seems to have lived a century before the other two most famous poets in the tradition, BASAVANNA and… …
52humiliation — n 1. mortification, humble pie, humbled pride; disgrace, shame, dishonor, reproach, disrepute, disreputation, ill repute, bad repute, discredit, disfavor, obloquy, loss of face; degradation, debasement, abasement, self abasement, vitiation,… …
53mortification — mortify ► VERB (mortifies, mortified) 1) cause to feel embarrassed or humiliated. 2) subdue (physical urges) by self denial or discipline. 3) be affected by gangrene or necrosis. DERIVATIVES mortification noun mortifying adjective …
54mortify — ► VERB (mortifies, mortified) 1) cause to feel embarrassed or humiliated. 2) subdue (physical urges) by self denial or discipline. 3) be affected by gangrene or necrosis. DERIVATIVES mortification noun mortifying adjective …
55mortify — v. ( ies, ied) 1 tr. a cause (a person) to feel shamed or humiliated. b wound (a person s feelings). 2 tr. bring (the body, the flesh, the passions, etc.) into subjection by self denial or discipline. 3 intr. (of flesh) be affected by gangrene or …
