1 example sentence using self-mortification.
Self-mortification used in a sentence
Self-mortification in a sentence as a noun
Or the way that religions dominated the attentions of earlier times--with the occasional social surplus being squandered on cathedral building, crusades, heresy and it's suppression, pilgrimages, self-mortification etc.
Self-mortification definitions
noun
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
See also: penance self-abasement