mortification of the flesh
mortification of the body

The women continued to practice together, including mortification of the flesh.

Perhaps it is a mortification of the flesh, like a hair shirt.

They witness nearly all the mortifications of the flesh a small town can offer.

These increased her mortification of the flesh, but she never revealed their existence.

Sometimes there is a whole passion play, sometimes only the mortification of the flesh.

Surely that alone was sufficient mortification of the flesh!

She began to inflict various tortures and mortifications of the flesh upon herself.

The mortification of the flesh practiced by some of its members is also criticized.

Some "mortification of the flesh" to ennoble Edgar further in our minds?

"I had hoped that mortification of the flesh might help you to master your pride and to repent."

I do not go in for the mortifications of the flesh as the more successful hermits do.

By this the children understood her to mean moderate acts of mortification of the flesh.

Mortification of the flesh (used primarily in religious and spiritual contexts)

We are forced to follow some of the less predictable routes that the mortification of the flesh can take.

They devoted their bodies and souls to God and participated in mortification of the flesh.

Mortification of the flesh, we are taught, furthers the triumph of the spirit.

He lived for the rest of his days in complete austerity and dedicated himself to mortifications of the flesh.

During the 13th century, confraternities were also founded which emphasized instead the need for personal mortification of the flesh as a way to salvation.

He pulled it out and began slashing at his own legs, feeling the arms biting deep, glorying in the mortification of the flesh.

For whatever reasons, mortification of the flesh and the artistic deployment of body fluids are fashionable at the moment.

Denial, self-sacrifice, mortification of the flesh - the martini is a jealous, demanding god.

Great proponents of mortification of the flesh for the good of the spirit."

On a certain level, Ford welcomed these mortifications of the flesh, the denial of bodily comfort.

He is now thirty years old, every hour of which period has been passed in study, total seclusion from the world, and mortification of the flesh.

It was the Shinto principle of mortification of the flesh to the nth degree.