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hair-shirted

hair-shirted is the alternative form of hairshirted.

Meaning of hairshirted

Adjective

hairshirted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a hairshirt.
    • The Gospels, contrasting Jesus with the hairshirted John the Baptist, and placing him with revelers and at dinner tables, […]2002, James Carroll, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 115
  2. (figuratively) Humble and penitent; ascetic.
    • Even a hairshirted Calvinist derived pleasure from his righteous self-deprivation: Sacrifice can be its own reward and source of perverse joy.2010, Andrew Benett, Ann O'Reilly, Consumed: Rethinking Business in the Era of Mindful Spending, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 113

Questions about hair-shirted

What is hair-shirted the alternative form of?
Hair-shirted is the alternative form of hairshirted.

Words near hair-shirted in the dictionary

  1. hair-raising
  2. hair-raisingly
  3. hair-salt
  4. hair-salts
  5. hair-shirt
  6. hair-shirted
  7. hair-shirts
  8. hair-splitter
  9. hair-splitters
  10. hair-splittery
  11. hair-splitting

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