What's the difference between abasement and mortification?

Abasement


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And then, proving that in the celebrity world of self-abasement there really is no such thing as "bottoming out", Shane started tweeting Ping Pong, otherwise known as Elizabeth Hurley's parrot Why has Australia not staged an intervention?
  • (2) These studies establish that the exocyclic ring of the 1,N2-propanodeoxyguanosine adduct fits into the cavity generated by the abasic site.
  • (3) Covalently closed circular DNA containing a synthetic analog of an abasic site at a unique position was used as a substrate to study DNA repair.
  • (4) In this study, we present structural and dynamic properties of duplex oligodeoxynucleotides containing G, C and T opposite a model abasic site studied by one and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
  • (5) By this assay, we first identified the formation of C-4'-hydroxy abasic sites in calf thymus DNA by neocarzinostatin.
  • (6) Abasic lesions in the template had relatively little effect on the polymerase incorporation reaction at sites proximal to the lesion.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A composite handout of CCTV pictures from the Metropolitan police showing British teenagers (L-R) Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum passing through security barriers at Gatwick Airport en route to Syria.
  • (8) Proton and phosphorus NMR studies are reported for two complementary nonanucleotide duplexes containing acyclic abasic sites.
  • (9) Shamima Begum, 15, Amira Abase, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, left their homes in east London last month to join the extremist group.
  • (10) However, incorporation opposite an abasic site was undetectable relative to that which occurred opposite a normal template nucleotide.
  • (11) But with the People's Daily writing that progress had only been possible because of David Cameron's admission that he had mishandled Tibet (where, since 2009, 100 monks and nuns have set fire to themselves in protest against Chinese rule), Britain's abasement was complete.
  • (12) Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, fled in February from Britain after deceiving their parents and siblings.
  • (13) The long pilgrimage of pregnancy with its wonders and abasements, the apotheosis of childbirth, the sacking and slow rebuilding of every last corner of my private world that motherhood has entailed – all unmentioned, wilfully or casually forgotten as time has passed.
  • (14) Before and after training they were low in need for order, endurance, abasement, and deference and high in need for autonomy and aggression.
  • (15) All the sequenced mutants correspond to single base-pair substitutions targeted at the abasic site.
  • (16) These results indicate that dTMP, and not dAMP, was mainly incorporated into the sites opposite to the abasic site analogue, and that incorrect deoxynucleotides were incorporated in the position adjacent to the abasic site analogue.
  • (17) Our results in human cells contrast markedly with those published previously for the mutational specificity of AP sites in Escherichia coli, in which a large majority of the mutants resulted from insertion of an A opposite the abasic site.
  • (18) The repair-related DNA synthesis was localized within 3 or 4 nucleotides surrounding the abasic site.
  • (19) The enzyme is able to incorporate nucleotides efficiently opposite the abasic template lesion and to continue DNA synthesis.
  • (20) The Met statement did appear to show some contrition stating: “With the benefit of hindsight, we acknowledge that the letters could have been delivered direct to the parents.” The disappearance of the 15-year-old girl in December led to a counter-terrorism investigation that saw Begum, Sultana and Abase identified as friends of the missing girl and being spoken to by detectives.

Mortification


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified
  • (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.
  • (n.) Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.
  • (n.) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.
  • (n.) Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.
  • (n.) That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.
  • (n.) A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Physical barriers are imposed upon them, and they go through a process of mortification of the self which begins soon after the marriage.
  • (2) Pope Francis in DC: pontiff alludes to sex abuse and political divisions – live Read more “I am also conscious of the courage with which you have faced difficult moments in the recent history of the church in this country without fear of self-criticism and at the cost of mortification and great sacrifice,” he said.
  • (3) The adolescent internalization of aggression, intense castration anxiety, and pervasive narcissistic mortification led to retreat from resolution of revived oedipal conflict and to concomitant detrimental superego alteration.
  • (4) Repentance, the process of change in Evangelical Renewal Therapy, is achieved through the analysis of moral action, rebuke, confession, prayer, recompense, and mortification through good works.
  • (5) That was our first response – mortification that we had completely blown our relationship with you.” Many people have been taken by the swagger displayed by Marion, four, as she entered the room and marched up to her father’s desk.
  • (6) Any dental loss must be compensated, but also any relative loss when dental trauma requires therapeutic mortification.
  • (7) The man the NME once referred to as the coolest in London sits in the Soho offices of a film distribution company, wearing a blue polka-dot shirt and an expression of absolute mortification.
  • (8) In the meantime, she is charming, funny, talking in long strings of non sequiturs, the punchline often self-mortification.
  • (9) Results are generally stable, especially after mentoplasty, but from the dental aspect pulp mortifications are not rare.
  • (10) This process speeded up by the rapid mortification of the ancient group of dentists.
  • (11) The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.
  • (12) The mortifications of the past few months do seem, however, to have rallied support.
  • (13) These skins preserve their normal histological aspect during the first 3 days, then, when revascularisation is setting in, superficial areas of epidermic mortification, opposite dermal hypovascularised zones, appear.
  • (14) Photograph: Thomas Butler for the Guardian But once we'd passed that initial mortification, it was fine; we were able to laugh about our bizarre predicament.
  • (15) Emotional coping employed in these fields can be interpreted 1) as defence of needs for dependence and regain of autonomy and 2) as narcissistic rage as a response to narcissistic mortification.
  • (16) Perhaps it's all bound up with the fact that Gleeson knows people think he's had something of a meteoric rise, aided by the fame of his father , who gave up teaching to become a full-time actor at 36, and enjoyed his breakthrough as Hamish in Braveheart four years later (12-year-old Domnhall's pride was apparently tempered by mortification that the part required his father to show his buttocks).
  • (17) Katz, a former deputy editor of the Guardian , also reflected on the “bowel-loosening mortification of the moment” he realised he had publicly described on Twitter, just a few days into the job, Paxman’s Newsnight interview with Labour MP Rachel Reeves as “boring, snoring” .
  • (18) Such "companions" allow these children to attempt to master creatively a variety of narcissistic mortifications suffered in reality and to displace unacceptable affects.
  • (19) Part of the appeal of Birthmarks lay in its being a young man's book, magnetised by youthful mortifications just as it was energised by a youthful pleasure in pure skill.
  • (20) Yes, they all looked ridiculous and, yes, any photographic evidence of such eras is a source of utter mortification to me.