Similar words: mortification, fortification, self-gratification, certification, desertification, self-purification, notification, certificate of incorporation. Meaning: n. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.
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1. Even the most extreme forms of self-mortification have ancient parallels.
2. He now embarked upon a course of extreme "self-mortification".
3. He practiced a Middle Way between self-mortification and self- indulgence.
4. Religious fanatics into self-mortification who have banded together to travel to the Holy Lands, armed with a mace.
5. Suffice it to say that he subsequently asserted that no one else had ever gone to such extremes of self-mortification.
6. It would have been easy, in comparison, to continue with his self-mortification, easy to become more and more famous, easy to attract great numbers of disciples.
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