Mortification (Topical Term)
- Broader heading: Asceticism
- Self-denial
Work cat.: 94-20466: Gleason, R.C. John Calvin and John Owen, 1995: CIP galley (mortification includes ... self-denial)
Web. 3 (mortification: the subjection and denial of bodily passions and appetites by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort)
Eliade encyc. relig. (mortification: despite its specifically Christian origins, term may be extended to practices in other religions; a component of asceticism)