different between mortification vs sorrow

English

Etymology

From Middle French mortification, from Old French, from Latin mortificatio.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

mortification (countable and uncountable, plural mortifications)

1. The act of mortifying.
2. A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
3. (medicine) The death of part of the body.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5

     And then there's the fever and the mortification—if it took bad ways he'd quickly be gone.

4. A bringing under of the passions and appetites by a severe or strict manner of living.
5. (law, Scotland) A bequest to a charitable institution.

Synonyms

• (a sensation of extreme shame): shame, humiliation

Antonyms

• (a sensation of extreme shame): honor, exaltation

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English sorow, sorwe, from Old English sorg, from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surg? (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swerg?- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit ????????? (s??rk?ati, “worry”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?r'?, IPA^(key): /?s????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s??o?/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?s??o?/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

sorrow (countable and uncountable, plural sorrows)

1. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
   • August 28, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47

     The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

2. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sorrow (third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple past and past participle sorrowed)

1. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 424:

     ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’

2. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

Derived terms

• besorrow

Translations

References

• “sorrow” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "sorrow" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.