Definition of "mortification"

mortification

noun
countable and uncountable, plural mortifications
1. The act of mortifying.
2. A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
  Quotations
  Certainly a little mortification appears very becoming in a wife—don't you think it will do her good to let her Pine a little.
  1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.ii
  He felt stunned—mortification, sorrow, and anger, mingled together: the past was like a dream, and the future swam indistinctly before him.
  1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Consent”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 152
  The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
3. (medicine) The death of part of the body.
  Quotations
  And then there's the fever and the mortification—if it took bad ways he'd quickly be gone.
  1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]
4. A bringing under of the passions and appetites by a severe or strict manner of living.
5. (law, Scotland) A bequest to a charitable institution.