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Mortification :: Mortification (n.) Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.

Gangrenescent :: Gangrenescent (a.) Tending to mortification or gangrene.

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification..

Mortification :: Mortification (n.) A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.

Spited :: Spite (n.) Vexation; chargrin; mortification.

Repine :: Repine (n.) Vexation; mortification.

Slough :: Slough (n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

Mortification :: Mortification (n.) The death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene..

Mortification :: Mortification (n.) That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation..

Sphacelation :: Sphacelation (n.) The process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.

Mortification :: Mortification (n.) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body..

Mortification :: Mortification (n.) Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.

Gangrene :: Gangrene (n.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.

Immortification :: Immortification (n.) Failure to mortify the passions.

Envy :: Envy (v. t.) To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it..

Chagrin :: Chagrin (n.) Vexation; mortification.

Envy :: Envy (n.) Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar..

Sackcloth :: Sackcloth (n.) Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence..

Mortification :: Mortification (n.) The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified.

Necrosis :: Necrosis (n.) Mortification or gangrene of bone, or the death of a bone or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries..

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