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Meanings of sackcloth in English

Russian
власяница
Portuguese
cilício
Spanish
cilicio
Catalan
cilici
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Garment made from coarsely woven cloth, worn as a token of mourning or mortification.

власяница
Synonyms
Examples for "hairshirt"
Examples for "hairshirt"
1
It has been a hairshirt week for Leinster, a time to pause.
The Irish Times
2
Or they could don the hairshirt and aim to sharply slow spending.
The Irish Times
3
If I was a Flagellant now, I would don hairshirt and up flail.
For the Term of His Natural Life
4
She cannot even give us the pleasure of the hairshirt.
Not that it Matters
5
Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne's hairshirt Brexit budget has not appeared for one thing.
The Irish Times
1
The breastplate and the cilice of bristles she took and dashed with feeble ferocity on the floor.
The Cloister and the Hearth
2
His essential awfulness is denoted not by any cilice mortifying the flesh, but by his grotesque comb-over-baldness.
The Guardian
3
For upwards of a month, then, the mild torture of the goat's-hair cilice did the office I required of it.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
4
Ignoring the slash of pain from his cilice, Silas retrieved his gun and began the long trek up the grassy slope.
The Da Vinci Code
5
And now I must doff this bristly cilice; they would prick thy tender skin, perhaps make it bleed, as they have me, I see.
The Cloister and the Hearth
Usage of sackcloth in English
1
The proud Lord of Hers was, in spirit, in sackcloth and ashes.
The Truce of God / A Tale of the Eleventh Century
2
None clothed in sackcloth might enter the gate that is called Beautiful.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 08: Talmage to Knox Little
3
Trixy told her to-night she'd discarded the sackcloth and kept the ashes.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
4
The team wanted drama and impact but she preferred sackcloth and ashes.
The Irish Times
5
It was an old man clad in sackcloth, who resembled a hermit.
Three short works / The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Juli...
6
His clothing was a single sackcloth, and his sustenance barley-bread and water.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
7
It were sheer impertinence to finger the texture of a zealot's sackcloth.
The Henchman
8
The canvas is bare and coarse as sackcloth, the brushwork amazingly minimal.
The Guardian
9
He wore sackcloth, and his feet were bare and scabbed and hard.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
10
There were sackcloth robes, laborer's tunics, and butcher's aprons with dried bloodstains.
The lies of locke lamora
11
The gay shirt and doublet hung like grey sackcloth on his limbs.
Sir Ludar / A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
12
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
13
Sugar licks her lips, which are as dry and rough-textured as sackcloth.
The crimson petal and the white
14
It wore a crude straw hat and a pair of sackcloth pants.
The Name of the Wind
15
Thou shalt repent, and so I tell thee; yea, in sackcloth and ashes.
A Boy's Ride
16
He saw uniformed livery hands side by side with sackcloth-garbed farmers.
Relic of the Dawn
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Translations for sackcloth
Portuguese
cilício
Spanish
cilicio
Catalan
cilici
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