• mortification in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Mortification". Mortification can...
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    Mortification of the flesh is an act by which an individual or group seeks to mortify or deaden their sinful nature, as a part of the process of sanctification...
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  • Mortification is an Australian Christian death metal band which was formed in 1987 as a heavy metal group, Lightforce, by mainstay Steve Rowe on bass...
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  • Narcissistic mortification is "the primitive terror of self dissolution, triggered by the sudden exposure of one's sense of a defective self ... it is...
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    Mortification in Christian theology to the subjective experience of Sanctification, the objective work of God between justification and glorification...
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  • The Roman Catholic Church has often held mortification of the flesh (literally, "putting the flesh to death"), as a worthy spiritual discipline. The practice...
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  • Self-mortification may refer to: in religious practice generally, mortification of the flesh Mortification (theology) Mortification in Catholic theology...
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    Catholics, Anglicans, among others) in the spiritual discipline known as mortification of the flesh. Many disciplines comprise seven cords, symbolizing the...
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  • Mortification is the debut studio album by Australian Christian death metal band Mortification. It was released on 12 October 1991. This album leans more...
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    multi-thong type, used to inflict severe corporal punishment or self-mortification. It is usually made of leather. The word is most commonly considered...
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  • its lay faithful about their status and rights under Canon Law; the "mortification of the flesh" practiced by its celibate members (cilice, discipline...
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    self-flagellation is practiced in the context of the doctrine of the mortification of the flesh and is seen as a spiritual discipline. It is often used...
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    narcissism Manipulation (psychology) Narcissistic injury neurosis elation mortification supply withdrawal Narcissistic Personality Inventory Related psychology...
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    Flagellants are practitioners of a form of mortification of the flesh by whipping their skin with various instruments of penance. Many Christian confraternities...
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    members, "corporal mortifications" such as self-inflicted pain (self-flagellation), sleeping on the floor or without a pillow. Mortification has a long history...
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  • communication theory found no support for always using mortification and corrective action. Also, the mortification and corrective action strategies had no greater...
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    Indian religions. In Jainism, it means asceticism (austerities, body mortification); in Buddhism, it denotes spiritual practices including meditation and...
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    The trauma of the plague led to pogroms against the Jews and the self-mortification of flagellants. Peasants who survived the pandemic paid lower rents...
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    may take the form of rituals, the renunciation of pleasure, or self-mortification. However, ascetics maintain that self-imposed constraints bring them...
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    monastery. Around the age of nine is also when de' Pazzi began practicing mortification of the flesh through self-flagellation, wearing a barbed metal cilice...
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    Catholic Church. Members of the confraternities of penitents practice mortification of the flesh through fasting, the use of the discipline, the wearing...
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  • culture, particularly by Jakartan one. Notable bands include Grave, Mortification, The Crown, Incapacity, Darkane, Deathchain, and Sepultura. Industrial...
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  • self-mortification" to reach a religious goal. The Buddhist texts depict (and criticize) Jain ascetics as those who practice extreme self-mortification (Bronkhorst...
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    pierced into the skin on the chest and back. People also do a form of mortification of the flesh by piercing the skin, tongue or cheeks with vel skewers...
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  • its affection, from itself and from all things, dying through a true mortification to all of them and to itself, to arrive at a sweet and delicious life...
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    believe the body in need of training, and thus advocated for fasting and mortification to subdue the body. He only recommends the Bible as reading material...
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    Stations of the Cross are tied with the Christian themes of repentance and mortification of the flesh. The style, form, and placement of the stations vary widely...
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    play, Un Automne En Solitude, in 2008, both via American record label Mortification Records. In 2009, a compilation album of the first two extended plays...
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    A sign of contradiction, in Catholic theology, is someone who, upon manifesting holiness, is subject to extreme opposition. The term is from the biblical...
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  • have been tempted to take the elevation of the spirit and concomitant mortification of the body to extremes. Early circuit riders often arose well before...
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