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Recent Examples of mortification The radical precision of Kant’s thought comes off as a product of the radical precision (or absurd rigidity) of his habits, which Collin nonetheless loads with pathos—as representing a quest for mental purity via the secular mortification of physicality. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024 Less than three years later, they had been subjected to a ritual mortification. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023 Lewis doesn’t say who told him so, but the absurd conjecture appeared in a slavish profile written by a freelance author for Sequoia Capital, which invested in FTX; the profile has since been scrubbed from the firm’s website, presumably out of mortification. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023 To Eminem’s eternal mortification, promise — and American hope — are what this film is really all about. Armond White, National Review, 11 Aug. 2023 See all Example Sentences for mortification 

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“Mortification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortification. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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