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hairshirted

hairshirted adjective: wearing a hairshirt.

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
    • Distinguished scientists are beginning to confront the notion that to save the planet, an age of hair-shirted austerity is now necessary.2011, Andrew Marr, A History of 20th Century Britain, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN

Forms of hairshirted

alternative formhair-shirted

Origin of hairshirted

From hairshirt + -ed.

Questions about hairshirted

What does hairshirted mean?
Hairshirted means wearing a hairshirt.
What part of speech is hairshirted?
Hairshirted is an adjective.

Words near hairshirted in the dictionary

  1. hairscales
  2. hairsedge
  3. hairshaft
  4. hairshafts
  5. hairshirt
  6. hairshirted
  7. hairshirts
  8. Hairsine
  9. hairslide
  10. hairslides
  11. hairsnake

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