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MORTIFICATION, Scotch law. This term is nearly synonymous with mortmain.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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These motions are impulses from God which often mortify the poet, as in the conclusions of "Artillerie," "Love Unknown," or "The Collar." Clarke points out that: "Paradoxically, to a readership that understood the dynamic of mortification, the explicit acknowledgement of the flawed authorship of the poems confirmed their status as inspired lyrics" (256).

Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry: "Divinitie, and Poesie, Met"

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