Definition of Sackcloth and ashes

1. Noun. A display of extreme remorse or repentance or grief.

Generic synonyms: Display

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sackcloth And Ashes

sack-winged
sack coat
sack man
sack out
sack race
sack races
sack up
sackable
sackage
sackages
sackbut
sackbuts
sackcloth
sackcloth and ashes (current term)
sackclothed
sackcloths
sacked
sacked out
sacker
sackers
sacket
sackful
sackfuls
sacking
sackings
sackless
sacklike
sackload

Literary usage of Sackcloth and ashes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 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, ..."

2. 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. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"262, Hartel) speaks of the lapsed proving their penitence by grovelling on sackcloth (cili- cium), dust, and ashes. " sackcloth and ashes " became the signs ..."

4. The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments: A Translation of the First by Guillaume Durand (1906)
"For we read in Isaiah the fifty-eighth, that penitents do lie in sackcloth and ashes. And Hiere- miah saith the same in the twenty-fifth chapter, ..."

5. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"CHAPTER XXXVI The Franco-Prussian War — Apply for leave to go to France—Wrecked — Paris in sackcloth and ashes — A generous Jew. WHEN the Franco-Prussian ..."

6. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"In the Middle Ages the practice became common. Peter the Venerable (de Mine. i. 4) speaks of dying га sackcloth and ashes as a custom of Christ laus, ..."

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