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Meanings of hair-shirted in English

Spanish
mortificante

Self-sacrificing or austere.

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        Examples for "hair-shirt"
        Examples for "hair-shirt"
        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
        Usage of hair-shirted in English
        1
        But alas, for the hair-shirted old dominie's backsliding disciples.
        Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
        2
        All other visions were absent in the hair-shirted, and self-scourgings brought out nothing but sexual idealities, sensual temptations.
        Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos / T...
        3
        This was a hard-headed, pragmatic speech which will not have gone down well with the more idealistic and hair-shirted fringe of green opinion.
        The Guardian
        4
        Say goodbye to Stephen Hester and hello to Ross McEwan, a hair-shirted Kiwi crusader who doesn't want a bonus this year or next.
        The Guardian
        5
        Here's a hair-shirted Palmer hard by;
        The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10,...
        6
        'That hair-shirted puke is back in town!'
        Orb Sceptre Throne
        Translations for hair-shirted
        Hair-shirted through the time