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sackcloth::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | garment |
Examples of sackcloth
sackcloth
So the sackcloth-and-ashes brigade should go and get their kicks somewhere else.
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In the dim light, we make out the anguished figure of a woman in a sackcloth shift.
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There he removed his New Year's fine clothing and weapons and dressed in sackcloth.
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He rends his cutaway till it looks like sackcloth and he looks like ashes.
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He wore a sackcloth and placed dirt on his head as a sign of humility.
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Two witnesses prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
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Back in the day, however, the region wore an inferiority complex as if it were sackcloth.
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Woods has not come to walk down Magnolia Lane in sackcloth and ashes.
From the independent.co.uk
The painter of this work, from his final decade, seems to be clothed in sackcloth and ashes.
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- A garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse
- A coarse cloth resembling sacking
- A cilice was originally a garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair (a hairshirt) used in some religious traditions to induce some degree of discomfort or pain as a sign of repentance and atonement. ...
- A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks; , garments worn as an act of penance. Now often used figuratively
- Cloth made of black goats' hair, coarse, rough, and thick, used for sacks, and also worn by mourners (Gen 37:34; Gen 42:25; Sa2 3:31; Est 4:1, Est 4:2; Psa 30:11, etc.), and as a sign of repentance (Mat 11:21). It was put upon animals by the people of Nineveh (Jon 3:8).
- Coarse clothing worn to show remorse or mourning.
- A rough, coarse cloth, or a bag-like garment made of this cloth and worn as a symbol of mourning or repentance. In the Bible sackcloth was often used to symbolize certain actions. In the case of mourning, either over a death (Gen. 37:34; Joel 1:8) or another calamity (Esth. 4:1-4; Job. ...
- Emblematic of humiliation.
