Significados de self-mortification em inglês

In its ecclesiastical sense, it denotes those who seek holiness through self-mortification.

I wished also to avoid the self-mortification which must ensue from altercation.

The release of the tapes was a wholly unnecessary act of self-mortification.

If that were true, Celia, my giving-up would be self-indulgence, not self-mortification.

In company with other monks, Siddhattha sought for a while enlightenment by self-mortification.

But they had to consult reason, not sentiment, and of self-mortification.

Asceticism, self-mortification, starvation, torture,-thiswas his means of gaining happiness hereafter.

But it had been for cause-forthe poor-forself-mortification.

He is all for self-mortification, poor simple soul.

Even mediaeval piety only inculcated self-mortification as a stage towards a higher {129} self-affirmation.

Now her face was reddening with self-mortification.

The pathway of the elder supra-man was one of crucifixion, self-denial, renunciation, affliction, poverty, disease and self-mortification.

Had she by her self-mortification done aught to pleasure those dear ones who slept their last sleep?

In the ecclesiastically consecrated character three minor branches of self-mortification have been recognized as indispensable pathways to perfection.

When something like this happens, an institution, any institution, flies into a frenzy of self-mortification and damage control.

Then his disciples abandoned him, for at that time self-mortification was regarded as the only path to salvation.