Mortification vs Admonition - What's the difference?
mortification | admonition |
The act of mortifying.
A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
(medicine) The death of part of the body.
*1913 ,
Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning.
* {{quote-book, title=, author=Plato, translator=Benjamin Jowett, year=1892
, passage=But modesty cannot be implanted by admonition only—the elders must set the example.}}
As nouns the difference between mortification and admonition
is that mortification is the act of mortifying while admonition is gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning.mortification
English
Noun
(en noun)- And then there's the fever and the mortification —if it took bad ways he'd quickly be gone.