Mortified vs Poor - What's the difference?
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(mortify)
(obsolete) To kill.
(obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
* Francis Bacon
* Hakewill
(obsolete) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
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*:Servius the Grammarian being troubled with the gowt, found no better meanes to be rid of it, than to apply poison to mortifie his legs.
To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
* Harte
* Prior
* Bible, Col. iii. 5
(usually, used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
(obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
* Evelyn
* Addison
(Scotland, legal, historical) To grant in mortmain
* 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland , Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (
With little or no possessions or money.
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Of low quality.
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*, chapter=10
, title= To be pitied.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
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, chapter=15 Deficient in a specified way.
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Inadequate, insufficient.
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*(w) (1600-1666)
*:That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.
Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
*(Bible), (w) v.3
*:Blessed are the poor in spirit.
(with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
Mortified is a related term of poor.
As a verb mortified
is (mortify).As an adjective poor is
with little or no possessions or money.As a noun poor is
(with "the") those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.mortified
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Verb
(head)mortify
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Verb
(en-verb)- Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.
- He mortified pearls in vinegar.
- Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
- With fasting mortified , worn out with tears.
- Mortify thy learned lust.
- Mortify , therefore, your members which are upon the earth.
- I was so mortified I could have died right there, instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.
- the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations
- How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought!
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- the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary
poor
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Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
citation, passage=Mr. Campion sighed. ‘Poor man,’ he said. ‘He sees his great sacrifices rejected by the gods, and so, no doubt, all the Misses Eumenides let loose again to plague him.’}}
Synonyms
* (little or no possessions) impoverished, wealthless, * (of low quality) inferior * (to be pitied) pitiable, * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (having little or no possessions) rich * (of low quality) good * (deficient in a specified way) rich * (inadequate) adequateDerived terms
* poor man's * dirt poor * house poor * land poor * piss-poor * poor as a church mouse * poor box * poorhouse * poor power * poor relationNoun
(en-plural noun)- The poor are always with us.