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Meanings of hair-shirt in English

Spanish
mortificante

Self-sacrificing or austere.

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        Usage of hair-shirt in English
        1
        She kneels to say her prayers on the edge of that hair-shirt.
        The Village Rector
        2
        The art deco mob thought the modernists were all hair-shirt puritans.
        The Guardian
        3
        More importantly, hair-shirt policies can only work if there is market pressure and political tolerance.
        Reuters
        4
        He relieved the priest, begging him to keep the secret of his wearing a hair-shirt.
        Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
        5
        If this all sounds a bit hair-shirt, it's not.
        The Guardian
        6
        But it was less hair-shirt than Ralph Lauren polo.
        The Irish Times
        7
        So that he can indulge himself in the perverse pleasure of the rasp of a hair-shirt.
        The Brimming Cup
        8
        To his hair-shirt he added an iron girdle.
        The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
        9
        I had then the happy inspiration to have recourse to the hair-shirt, which hitherto I had dreaded.
        The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
        10
        Doff these thy fine garments, and don an hair-shirt, and at daybreak present thyself before the king.
        Barlaam and Ioasaph
        11
        It fits me like a hair-shirt.
        The Research Magnificent
        12
        He was at once ascetic and sensual, alternating between the hair-shirt of penance and the embraces of Catharine Sedley.
        Historical Papers / Part 3 from Volume VI of The Works of John G...
        13
        One does not wear a hair-shirt merely to enjoy the pleasure of following it by one slightly less hairy.
        Not that it Matters
        14
        There was also a brown bundle which resolved itself into a monkish habit within which was rolled a hair-shirt.
        The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
        15
        Whenever Phil Neville is picked to start in midfield, it is as if United have chosen to don a hair-shirt.
        The Irish Times
        16
        A severer line of business, perhaps, such as I had read of; something that included black bread and a hair-shirt.
        Dream Days
        Translations for hair-shirt
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