Emily Dickinson Lexicon — MORT'I-FY-ING

Definition for MORT'I-FY-ING

MOR'TI-FY MOR'TI-FY-ING-LY

MORT'I-FY-ING, pp.

Changing from soundness to gangrene or sphacelus.
Subduing; humbling; restraining.
adj. Humiliating; tending to humble or abase. He met with a mortifying repulse.

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