Sentence examples for self-mortification from inspiring English sources

Clothing designed to facilitate self-mortification.

"I was involved in an immense self-mortification," she says.

The script reflects Segel's affinity for comic self-mortification.

Nothing less than extreme self-mortification satisfied the ascetic virtuosos.

The release of the tapes was a wholly unnecessary act of self-mortification.

This was, at bottom, a religious self-mortification, and was not always politically coherent.

This is accomplished through personal sacrifice and may involve forms of self-mortification.

Self-mortification and individual austerities can be detected, but these are incidental to the eremitical style.

On Jan . 28 Thaipusam, a ritual self-mortification ceremony honors Murga, the Hindu god of youth.

After Siddhartha had mastered all the teachings of Arada Kalama (Alara Kalama) and then Udraka Ramaputra (Uddaka Ramaputta), he left and began practicing self mortification along with Kaundinya and his four colleagues at Uruvilva (Uruvela).

The first understands fasting as a form of self -mortification, a means of punishing the body so as to affect divine absolution for sins committed.