Immortification

Quick meaning: Immortification is a noun meaning (archaic, religion) A lack of mortification; the non-suppression of sinful desires.

Meaning

(archaic, religion) A lack of mortification; the non-suppression of sinful desires.

Example Sentences

immortification of spirit is the cause of all our secret and spiritual indispositions

Do not the excessive torments of Jesus reproach you with immortification and self-seeking? Does not the hard bed of the cross condemn your attachment to your own ease, and your horror of the least inconvenience?

There is another thing which greatly afflicts those who give themselves to prayer. It is the distractions which often come and carry their thoughts, and their hearts too, hither and thither. They come at times from the immortification of the senses; at times with the soul being distracted in itself, and often because the Lord wills it, to try His servants.

Word Forms

• immortifications

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unmortifiedness, immortability, mortifiedness, mortiferousness, mortalness, impenitence.

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