sackcloth
Idioms about sackcloth
in sackcloth and ashes, in a state of repentance or sorrow; contrite: She would be in sackcloth and ashes for days over every trifling error she made.
Origin of sackcloth
1Other words from sackcloth
- sackclothed, adjective
Words Nearby sackcloth
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How to use sackcloth in a sentence
Why do we don the sackcloth and ashes of the eternal victims?
I have put off the robe of peace, and have put upon me the sackcloth of supplication, and I will cry to the most High in my days.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousDon't delude yourself with the notion that she is sitting down in sackcloth and ashes with her past!
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonAnd the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousShe is known to confess, and is suspected of wearing sackcloth.
Mystic London: | Charles Maurice Davies
But she was expiating it in very sackcloth and ashes, and he would add nothing to the burden on her back.
The Prime Minister | Anthony Trollope
British Dictionary definitions for sackcloth
/ (ˈsækˌklɒθ) /
coarse cloth such as sacking
garments made of such cloth, worn formerly to indicate mourning or penitence
sackcloth and ashes a public display of extreme grief, remorse, or repentance
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