maceration

Example Sentences

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To this assurance he added some affectionate counsels, advising her and her companions not to go to extremes with their macerations.

From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour

Not content with this, he soon began to practise upon himself particular and extreme asperities and macerations.

From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

"It demands no macerations, no fetters, no fearful austerities—only fineness and loving kindness."

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar

He sought to conceal from all eyes the secret macerations that he inflicts upon himself in penitence.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne

This stroke visibly touched the canonesses, still soft from the macerations of the morning; and Donna Livia compassionately asked how he had subsisted since his rupture with the Bishop.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith