What's the difference between mortification and shame?

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.

Shame


Definition:

  • (n.) A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
  • (n.) Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.
  • (n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.
  • (n.) The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.
  • (v. t.) To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.
  • (v. t.) To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
  • (v. t.) To mock at; to deride.
  • (n.) To be ashamed; to feel shame.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (2) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
  • (3) However, there's been very little mention of what happened in Manchester today – shame on you.
  • (4) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
  • (5) Yogi Breisner, performance manager for the British eventing team, said: "It is a real shame that it has been called off, especially in an Olympic year when a lot of the riders and horses would have been on show.
  • (6) The irony of this type of self-manipulation is that ultimately the child, or adult, finds himself again burdened by impotence, though it is the impotence of guilt rather than that of shame.
  • (7) "The whole thing was stupid, Donald called him at once to discuss it, he had such a go at him, I mean, fuck, it's a shame we didn't record it, he fucked him up good, had such a proper fucking go at him."
  • (8) Significant differences (p less than 0.05-p less than 0.01) were found, suggesting that the Eastern mothers strongly expressed their shame, whereas the Western mothers 'felt ashamed' to express it at all.
  • (9) For now, the overriding feeling is helplessness, tinged with shame for the last year of passivity.
  • (10) He was looking down at his feet - and she realised he felt the shame, too.
  • (11) Frankly, it is rather a shame that he does not fall under the Treasure Act (to do so he would have to be over 300 years old and be composed of more than 10% gold or silver).
  • (12) I look back at those moments with shame – you look to your parents to protect you so, when it seems they are falling apart, you lash out at them because you feel vulnerable.
  • (13) We wanted a place where men could discuss masculine topics without facing the same public shaming outcry that happens on social media sites – feminists are quick on the trigger to try to take down anything they consider wrong … Milo Yiannopoulos lost his verified status on Twitter because of his views on masculinity.
  • (14) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
  • (15) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
  • (16) "The house itself isn't very old ... it's a great shame."
  • (17) This year, on the first day, I bumped into a fellow market regular who was hawking a DVD title (no longer a badge of shame).
  • (18) Reda Eldanbouki, director of the women’s centre for guidance and legal awareness, an Egyptian NGO based in al-Mansoura, said it was shameful for Hijazi to ask the eight presenters to only come back in front of camera once their appearance has become “appropriate”.
  • (19) I got a hint of the price she has paid for her ambidextrous approach to cultural identify after her last interview was published, when a shocking number of British Pakistani men got in touch to denounce her as a shameful infidel.
  • (20) He said similar “name and shame” legislation had run afoul of the first amendment and that the rule may be unconstitutional.