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Meanings of mortify the flesh in English

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Usage of mortify the flesh in English
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We are to mortify the flesh and thwart the carnal mind.
He Fell in Love with His Wife
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Did he fancy you meant to mortify the flesh with a fortnight's fast?
Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea
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Avoid swearing, mortify the flesh-thatis, don't take a third tumbler after dinner-
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science -...
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Our natural character is vicious; let us stifle natural desires and mortify the flesh.
The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 / A Typographic Art Jo...
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He dressed for comfort and not to mortify the flesh.
The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915
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We should mortify the flesh-theterrible flesh-thecurse of Adam!
Jude the Obscure
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They have no wives, and mortify the flesh, and-
Christmas / Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related ...
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These philosophers were moved to mortify the flesh, and to deny their social interests, by extreme caution.
The Moral Economy
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Again, what use to mortify the flesh?
The Religions of India / Handbooks on the History of Religions, ...
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They tried to produce a condition of death in life: to mortify the flesh, as they called it.
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
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I want to mortify the flesh-
The Story Girl
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On Friday morning, trying to get away from Brexit, I got on an exercise machine to mortify the flesh.
The Irish Times
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They take up no cross, neither mortify the flesh by holy fasting, but cherish and feed it as the lost heathen do.
Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Volume 06
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The hair shirts in which the old monks used to mortify the flesh could not have been much before them in this mortifying particular.
In the Catskills: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
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Yet even in those days I believed that it was virtuous to mortify the flesh, for it is a fact that continence increases intellectual clarity.
Julian
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Any where and every where it is possible "to take up our cross," to "deny ourselves," to " mortify the flesh," to "walk in the Spirit."
Female Scripture Biography, Volume II / Including an Essay on Wh...
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