noun
- a person or thing that causes mortification, embarrassment, or humiliation
- a person who practices mortification of the flesh for religious purposes
Usage: religious, formal
Examples
- His public mistake was a real mortifier that he couldn't live down.
- The failed presentation turned out to be a mortifier for the entire team.
- Medieval mortifiers would wear hair shirts as acts of self-denial.
- She found the criticism to be a mortifier to her pride.
- The unexpected question was a mortifier that left him speechless.
- Some religious mortifiers practiced fasting as spiritual discipline.