Noah Webster
Mortifying
MOR'TIFYING, participle present tense Changing from soundness to gangrene or sphacelus.
1. Subduing; humbling; restraining.
2. adjective Humiliating; tending to humble or abase.
He met with a mortifying repulse.
MOR'TIFYING, participle present tense Changing from soundness to gangrene or sphacelus.
1. Subduing; humbling; restraining.
2. adjective Humiliating; tending to humble or abase.
He met with a mortifying repulse.