Definitions for sackcloths

sackcloths sack·cloth

Spelling: [sak-klawth, -kloth]
IPA: /ˈsækˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ/

Sackcloths is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 450 anagrams from letters in sackcloths (acchklosst).

Definitions for sackcloths

noun

  1. sacking.
  2. coarse cloth worn as a sign of mourning or penitence.

Idioms

  1. in sackcloth and ashes, in a state of repentance or sorrow; contrite:

Origin of sackcloths

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at sack1, cloth

Examples for sackcloths

A whole year of sackcloth and ashes would not be penance for such iniquity.

Why do we don the sackcloth and ashes of the eternal victims?

Lament like a virgin Girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

My poor boy, he who is sitting in sackcloth and ashes needs no jester.

Giving a hitch to her sackcloth, she departed and banged the door.

We have doffed the cap and bells, and gone into sackcloth and ashes.

They may repair their garments with sackcloth and other remnants.

They bid those who repent put on sackcloth, and cover themselves with ashes.

Friars of the sack, forsooth, because they were clothed in sackcloth!

Then Madame Staubach had again promised that the sackcloth and ashes should be there.

Word Value for sackcloths
Scrable

20

Words with friends

22

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