shame vs mortification

something to think on:

shame 
[sheym]
noun, verb, shamed, sham⋅ing.
–noun

1. a painful emotion caused by a strong sense of guilt, embarrassment, unworthiness, or disgrace.
2. capacity for such a feeling: have you no shame?
3. one that brings dishonor, disgrace, or condemnation.
4. a condition of disgrace or dishonor; ignominy.
5. a great disappointment.

tr.v. shamed, sham·ing, shames
1. to cause to feel shame; put to shame.
2. to bring dishonor or disgrace on.
3. to disgrace by surpassing.
4. to force by making ashamed: he was shamed into making an apology.


mor⋅ti⋅fi⋅ca⋅tion 
[mawr-tuh-fi-key-shuhn]
–noun
1. a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.
2. a cause or source of such humiliation or shame.
3. the practice of asceticism by penitential discipline to overcome desire for sin and to strengthen the will.
4. pathology. the death of one part of the body while the rest is alive; gangrene; necrosis.