Crossword-Solution: HAIRSHIRT
We have 5 clues for the answer “HAIRSHIRT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Garment worn for penance | 1 answer |
| Penitent's garb | 1 answer |
| Souvenir from a 1968 Broadway musical? | 1 answer |
| Self-imposed punishment | 2 answers |
| Symbol of penitence | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
OTMINEO
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with HAIRSHIRT (4)
The secretary, arch ascetic, arrived at 5:45 and lit the fire which the chapel-keeper (a man with no enthusiasm whatever for flagellation, the hairshirt, or intellectuality) had laid but would not get up to light.
But if it is either unduly harsh or unnecessarily lax, he likewise knows it and wears it as a hairshirt, to the undoing of his morale.
While the Justice of the Peace was rummaging my books, one of the pursuivants searched my person, and opening my doublet, he discovered my hairshirt.
Edmund tells how besides packing their linen very carefully she also packed a hairshirt for each of them, which they were to wear occasionally according to their promise to her, to remind them that they must not look for ease and comfort in life, above all must not yield to sensual pleasures, but must be ready to suffer many little troubles voluntarily, in order that they might be able to resist temptation when severer trials came.
Quotes with HAIRSHIRT (1)
Hate Poem I hate you truly. Truly I do. Everything about me hates everything about you. The flick of my wrist hates you. The way I hold my pencil hates you. The sound made by my tiniest bones were they trapped in the jaws of a moray eel hates you. Each corpuscle singing in its capillary hates you. Look out! Fore! I hate you. The blue-green jewel of sock lint I’m diggingfrom under by third toenail, left foot, hates you. The history of this keychain hates you. My sigh in the ba…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1990–2020).