hair-shirt in English
noun
1
a shirt of haircloth, formerly worn by penitents and ascetics.
She fasted savagely, stood barefoot on winter mornings while she recited all 150 psalms, and wore iron chains and a hair shirt till the day she died.
adjective
1
austere and self-sacrificing.
a hair-shirted existence advocated by ecofundamentalists
Use "hair-shirt" in a sentence
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1. The Hair Shirt and Spirituality
2. They pursued the mortification of their flesh by means of the hair shirt.
3. 21 From her childhood she sacrificed and mortified herself and wore a hair shirt.
4. Does wearing a hair shirt or enduring forms of self-imposed physical privations make one a spiritual person?