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vb. (en-third-person singular of: mortify)

Usage examples of "mortifies".

It mortifies me to be strengthening principles which deem radically vicious, but this vice is entailed on us by the first error.

When this is in return for a rude thing said by another, it brings him to his senses, it mortifies and corrects him in the most salutary way, and places him at the feet of your good nature in the eyes of the company.