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How to use mortify in a sentence

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People who mortify the body in some way will always command a voyeuristic interest.
And to pray and to mortify oneself is also to take care of others and to forget oneself.
He doesn't give to crush or mortify us, or to exert His supremacy over us, but to elevate us and draw us to Himself, to create communion.
You must love, venerate, pray and mortify yourself for the Pope, and do so with greater affection each day.
These ions are suitable to attack the cellular metabolic systems that primitive organisms mortify.
Perhaps even for the desire to mortify an ambition that certainly he should possess in his youth.
They dont have enough understanding to mortify the deeds of their flesh and daily die out to self.
I understand well the idea of abandoning the ego, but do we have to mortify ourselves?
The report said that the Arab Janjaweed see attacking African women as a way to mortify African rebel groups.
Make your brothers understand that they do not need to mortify or lacerate their bodies to move my Spirit and awaken my pity or charity.
If McCain had done just a little better, Palin might have had a chance to fidget at the State of the Union and mortify Americans with her behavior at state funerals.
Disinfection is the inactivation or mortify of pathogen microorganisms.
While most children will blithely relate intimate family things that would mortify their parents, children who grow up with woman abuse or child maltreatment are just the opposite.
Contrive fiendishly cruel and resourceful ways to mortify them.
In this, as in so many other circumstances in life, we have to practise the virtue of temperance, which requires us to mortify the appetite of gluttony.
Examples from Classical Literature
Dat correspondence mortify me might'ly' cuz I hadn' raised P'laski no sich a ways as dat.
The intention is, I tell you plainly, to mortify you into a sense of your duty.
It is for this that these men mortify their flesh, and to set us an example, who would pamper ourselves overmuch.
On the contrary, he seemed to redouble his efforts to mortify his son.
If ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
But your kings do not allow so small a thing to vex or mortify them.
Though I showed nothing of it, it served only to mortify me.
To mortify her the more, she was landed at Traitors' Stairs.
But she passed the matter over in silence, not caring to mortify him.
I did not wish to mortify the old gentleman and spoil his shortlived joy.
However, I will be revenged on her somehow, and I beg you will give me your help in the matter, and to tell me anything that you can think of that is likely to mortify her.
Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands.
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