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hair shirt
noun as in personal punishment
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Had she not openly asserted her belief that he wore a hair shirt and scourged himself in private?
England, apparently with a sigh of relief, lays aside her hair shirt, and proves that she has been wearing a silk vest under it.
They found under his outer garments a hair shirt, and then they were half convinced he must have been a godly man.
On the same day he had put on a hair shirt, and he had never since removed either the one or the other.
He had left Petrograd dressed as a pilgrim, with hair-shirt and staff complete, and as such he posed to everybody.
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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hair shirt, such as: self-flagellation, self-hatred, and self-punishment.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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