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Definition of Sackcloth
1. Noun. A garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse.
2. Noun. A coarse cloth resembling sacking.
Definition of Sackcloth
1. n. Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.
Definition of Sackcloth
1. Noun. A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks. ¹
2. Noun. (Usually paired with 'ashes'), garments worn as an act of penance. Now often used figuratively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sackcloth
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sackcloth
Literary usage of Sackcloth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"9: 4. and took old sacks 2Sa, 3:31.gird you with sackcloth, 21:10. the daughter
of Aiah took sackcloth, IK. 20:31.put sackcloth on our loins, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"31 ; 1 Kings xxi. 27 ; 2 Kings xix. 1, &C.). It was of a dark colour, as we see
in Apocal. vi. 12: "The sun became black as sackcloth of ..."
3. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"In " sackcloth and Ashes " — The Mark of God's Displeasure — Parental Anguish
... Literally in "sackcloth and ashes" he prostrates himself before his gods. ..."
4. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham, Richard D. Bingham (1855)
"Other 81 writers join sackcloth and ashes together ; for so ... heretics to the
Church, says, ' he came clothed in sackcloth and sprinkled with ashes. ..."
5. The World's Great Sermons by Grenville Kleiser (1908)
"... clothed with sackcloth.—Esther iv., 2. THE sign of affliction was thus excluded
from the Persian court in order that royalty might not be discomposed. ..."
6. The Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1851)
"... they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. began to say unto
the multitudes 22 lint I say unto you, It shall be concerning John, ..."
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