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Definition of Sackcloth and ashes
1. Noun. A display of extreme remorse or repentance or grief.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sackcloth And Ashes
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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