immortification

plural immortifications

1. archaiccountableuncountablelifestyleA lack of mortification; the non-suppression of sinful desires.

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

   1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC

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   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?

   1883, Patrick Francis Moran, The Catholic Prayer Book and Manual of Meditations, Meditations for Three Days before Communion

   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.

   1891, anonymous author, A Year with the Saints, September