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Значения термина self-mortification на английском

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Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.

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        Использование термина self-mortification на английском
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        In its ecclesiastical sense, it denotes those who seek holiness through self-mortification.
        A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
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        I wished also to avoid the self-mortification which must ensue from altercation.
        Mark Rutherford's Deliverance
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        The release of the tapes was a wholly unnecessary act of self-mortification.
        The new yorker
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        If that were true, Celia, my giving-up would be self-indulgence, not self-mortification.
        Middlemarch
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        In company with other monks, Siddhattha sought for a while enlightenment by self-mortification.
        The Buddha: A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes
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        But they had to consult reason, not sentiment, and of self-mortification.
        Jean-Christophe, Volume I
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        Asceticism, self-mortification, starvation, torture,-thiswas his means of gaining happiness hereafter.
        The Religions of India / Handbooks on the History of Religions, ...
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        But it had been for cause-forthe poor-forself-mortification.
        The History of David Grieve
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        He is all for self-mortification, poor simple soul.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 / A Magazi...
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        Even mediaeval piety only inculcated self-mortification as a stage towards a higher {129} self-affirmation.
        Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics
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        Now her face was reddening with self-mortification.
        His Second Wife
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        The pathway of the elder supra-man was one of crucifixion, self-denial, renunciation, affliction, poverty, disease and self-mortification.
        Freedom Talks No. II
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        Had she by her self-mortification done aught to pleasure those dear ones who slept their last sleep?
        A Life's Morning
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        In the ecclesiastically consecrated character three minor branches of self-mortification have been recognized as indispensable pathways to perfection.
        The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
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        When something like this happens, an institution, any institution, flies into a frenzy of self-mortification and damage control.
        Mortal Allies
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        Then his disciples abandoned him, for at that time self-mortification was regarded as the only path to salvation.
        From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
        Translations for self-mortification
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        каталонский
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        Self-mortification через время