mortify
verb (used with object)
to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
had been mortifying
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past perfect progressiveof mortify.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He divined that the betrayal into a passion of fear had been mortifying to her, and wished her to understand that he took it for good acting.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
