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

2. (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.

3. (n.) Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.

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

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

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

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

Albigensianism Catharism Day of Atonement Franciscanism Sabbatarianism Trappism Waldensianism Yoga Yom Kippur abasement abashment abstinence anchoritic monasticism anchoritism asceticism austerity awkwardness caries carrion chagrin cold purgatorial fires comedown confusion debasement decay decomposition deflation descent discomfiture discomposure disconcertedness disconcertion disconcertment discountenance disgrace distress disturbance dry gangrene dry rot dump embarrassment eremitism fasting flagellation foulness gangrene gas gangrene hair shirt hangdog look humbled pride humiliation letdown lustration maceration mendicantism moist gangrene monachism monasticism necrosis necrotic tissue noma penance penitence penitential act penitential exercise purgation purgatory puritanism put-down putrefaction putrescence putridity putridness rancidity rancidness rankness repentance rigor rot rottenness sackcloth and ashes self-abasement self-abnegation self-denial self-diminishment self-mortification setdown shame shamefacedness shamefastness slough sphacelation sphacelus spoilage tooth decay voluntary poverty