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Self-mortification

noun

Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing. Synonyms: penance, self-abasement.

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"Self-mortification" Quotes from Famous Books

... arrange his affairs finally, and then quit forever his native land. To prove to himself that this was the case, he had intended at Dover to hurry at once to Burleigh, and merely write to Cleveland that he was returned to England. But his heart would not suffer him to enjoy this cruel luxury of self-mortification, and his horses' heads were turned to Richmond when within a stage of London. He had spent two days with the good old man, and those two days had so warmed and softened his feelings that he was quite appalled at his own dereliction from fixed principles! However, he went ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book II • Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Words linked to "Self-mortification" : penalisation, punishment, penalty, penance, self-abasement, penalization