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Meanings of mortification of the flesh in English

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Usage of mortification of the flesh in English
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There is little fear of overdoing the mortification of the flesh.
Essays in Rebellion
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You held forth to me on the mortification of the flesh.
The Malady of the Century
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Moreover, salt signifies the discretion of wisdom, or again, mortification of the flesh.
Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) / From the Com...
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Was he not leading a life of great austerity and mortification of the flesh?
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
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This is mortification of the flesh as extreme as monastic hair shirts and flagellation.
The Guardian
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Some of them were covered with wounds and bruises due to mortification of the flesh.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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I started to say that it had called for mortification of the flesh, but I shan't.
One Third Off
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It sounds like an especially Catholic form of sexual rebellion, involving much mortification of the flesh.
The Guardian
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Like washing the feet of Christ, it was all about meekness, submission, and mortification of the flesh.
Rasputin's daughter
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Here our adversaries object that our teachers are opposed to discipline and mortification of the flesh, as Jovinian.
The Augsburg Confession / The confession of faith, which was sub...
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He has never had a fire in his room in order to create a small mortification of the flesh.
The new yorker
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At first the convents were reproached for stifling all culture and development and applying only correction and mortification of the flesh.
Women of Modern France
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The old monastic ideal of celibacy, solitude, mortification of the flesh, prayer and meditation, melted under the sun of a new prosperity.
The Age of the Reformation
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The religious held that only in self-discipline, mortification of the flesh, and constant prayer, could the soul be fitted for eternal life.
Star Maker
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The thing had to be represented as in some fashion or other an act of self-denial, a form of mortification of the flesh.
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
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Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church?
The Communist Manifesto