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Significados de hair-shirt en inglés

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mortificante

Self-sacrificing or austere.

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        Uso de hair-shirt en inglés
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        She kneels to say her prayers on the edge of that hair-shirt.
        The Village Rector
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        The art deco mob thought the modernists were all hair-shirt puritans.
        The Guardian
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        More importantly, hair-shirt policies can only work if there is market pressure and political tolerance.
        Reuters
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        He relieved the priest, begging him to keep the secret of his wearing a hair-shirt.
        Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
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        If this all sounds a bit hair-shirt, it's not.
        The Guardian
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        But it was less hair-shirt than Ralph Lauren polo.
        The Irish Times
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        So that he can indulge himself in the perverse pleasure of the rasp of a hair-shirt.
        The Brimming Cup
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        To his hair-shirt he added an iron girdle.
        The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
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        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
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        It fits me like a hair-shirt.
        The Research Magnificent
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        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...
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        One does not wear a hair-shirt merely to enjoy the pleasure of following it by one slightly less hairy.
        Not that it Matters
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        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...
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        Whenever Phil Neville is picked to start in midfield, it is as if United have chosen to don a hair-shirt.
        The Irish Times
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        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
        Hair-shirt a través del tiempo