mortifications in English
noun
1
great embarrassment and shame.
they mistook my mortification for an admission of guilt
2
the action of subduing one's bodily desires.
mortification of the flesh has a long tradition in some religions
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1. The Apparitions were also characterized by an abundance of words, the length of the ecstasies, songs, prayers of intercession, blessings (especially by means of water), repeated falls during the same apparition on certain days (from August 15, 1982 until the end of Lent in 1983), and other mortifications.