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immortification

immortification noun: a lack of mortification; the non-suppression of sinful desires.

Noun

immortification (countable and uncountable, plural immortifications)

  1. (archaic) A lack of mortification; the non-suppression of sinful desires.
    • immortification of spirit is the cause of all our secret and spiritual indispositions1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC
    • Do not the excessive torments of Jesus reproach you with immortification and self-seeking? Does not the hard bed of the cross condemn your attachment to your own ease, and your horror of the least inconvenience?1883, Patrick Francis Moran, The Catholic Prayer Book and Manual of Meditations, Meditations for Three Days before Communion

Forms of immortification

pluralimmortifications

Origin of immortification

From im- + mortification.

Questions about immortification

What does immortification mean?
Immortification means a lack of mortification; the non-suppression of sinful desires.
What part of speech is immortification?
Immortification is a noun.
What is the plural of immortification?
The plural of immortification is immortifications.

Words near immortification in the dictionary

  1. immortalness
  2. immortals
  3. immortalship
  4. immortelle
  5. immortelles
  6. immortification
  7. immortifications
  8. immortified
  9. immorts
  10. immotile
  11. immotility

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