Definitions for hair-shirt

hair-shirt hair shirt

Hair-Shirt is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in hair-shirt (-ahhiirrst).

Definitions for hair-shirt

noun

  1. a garment of coarse haircloth, worn next to the skin as a penance by ascetics and penitents.
  2. self-imposed punishment, suffering, sacrifice, or penance.

Origin of hair-shirt

1350-1400; cf. hair

Examples for hair-shirt

I might as well put on a hair-shirt for the rest of my existence.

Tearing away cloak and cassock and hair-shirt under all, he leaned his ear above the heart.

A severer line of business, perhaps, such as I had read of; something that included black bread and a hair-shirt.

He had left Petrograd dressed as a pilgrim, with hair-shirt and staff complete, and as such he posed to everybody.

Obviously she had been wearing that hair-shirt debt next to her soul's skin.

She kneels to say her prayers on the edge of that hair-shirt.

There was also a brown bundle which resolved itself into a monkish habit within which was rolled a hair-shirt.

But she became the most dreadful tyrant: Tina used to say I wore her as a hair-shirt.

He was at once ascetic and sensual, alternating between the hair-shirt of penance and the embraces of Catharine Sedley.

I had then the happy inspiration to have recourse to the hair-shirt, which hitherto I had dreaded.

Word Value for hair-shirt
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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