<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.</li><li>A cause or source of such humiliation or shame.</li><li>The practice of asceticism by penitential discipline to overcome desire for sin and to strengthen the will.</li><li>Pathology: the death of one part of the body while the rest is alive; gangrene; necrosis.</li></ul>