(n.) The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
(n.) The effect of anger; punishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the villagers fail to respect the social code, by not using her new name or by reminding her of her indignity, they have to perform a reparative ritual, at which a goat is sacrificed.
(2) "This unfair and unequal treatment means that children with disabilities – already so disadvantaged – suffer further indignities.
(3) Asked by the BBC whether he would apologise or comply with a demand from Miliband for him to resign, he said: "Well, if someone can explain anything that I said as factually incorrect of course I would consider it...People are slightly spinning and loading into what I said in a way to get false indignation."
(4) The ALA collects information on which books are objected to and reports on prominent recurring themes that tend to generate moral or ideological indignation.
(5) We accept on behalf of our client that public interest demands nothing but total indignation and condemnation from all media reporting but such reporting ought not to persist at the expense of undermining Mr Barklie’s right to a fair trial.” His lawyers said the Metropolitan police had confirmed ”that arrangements were in hand to take the investigation to the next stage”.
(6) Not since Novak Djokovic beat him 6-1, 6-0 in the semi-final of the 2007 Miami Masters – when Murray was injured – has the Scot had to suffer such indignity.
(7) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
(8) The Duchess of Cambridge, due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, will not suffer the indignities of, say, Mary of Modena in 1688, forced to give birth in front of an audience of 200 and still accused of a bit of business with bedpan and changeling.
(9) Last year, in a continuing campaign to improve policing , he produced a book brimming with indignation.
(10) Imagine the dizzy swoon of indignation deprivation: what's upsetting is there's nothing to get upset about.
(11) And we are increasing the number of single rooms in the NHS to ensure no patient suffers this indignity when it is unjustified."
(12) But the State Department's indignation over the leaks of allegedly valuable secrets was, and remains, preposterous.
(13) 2.42am BST 6 mins Jamaica indignant as a corner is awarded when they thought they were getting a foul.
(14) The human pressure cooker could not contain his indignation at having to watch Channel 4 news reporter, Fatima Manji , cover the tragic attack in Nice.
(15) Righteous indignation was tweeted and retweeted, celebrities piled on the pressure, pundits sharpened their quills.
(16) I cried at the time, tears of sadness for her, guilt for me (I should be able to do more), and indignation and anger about the unfairness of it all.
(17) It was classic Loach territory: exploitation, the indignity of unemployment, the resilience and humour of working-class people.
(18) When Elinor and Marianne debate the importance of money in the company of Edward, Marianne reacts indignantly to Elinor's declaration that happiness has much to do with "wealth": "'Elinor, for shame!'
(19) It was found that in a somewhat cyclical succession, patient deviance was followed by the staff's spontaneous moral indignation.
(20) For the next five years at least that is an indignity he will not have to worry about.
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.