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Definition of Hair-shirt
1. Adjective. Self-sacrificing or austere.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hair-shirt
Literary usage of Hair-shirt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia by Karl von Gebler (1879)
"The Hair Shirt.—Imprisonment.— Galileo only detained twenty-two Days at the Holy
Office.—Torture.—Refuted in i8th Century.—Torture based on the words, ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Hair shirt, a shirt made of haircloth, used especially for penance. ... When no
prelate's lawn with hair-shirt lined Is half so incoherent as my ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"... his constant habit of wearing a hair-shirt (Macri ... Muni;» frequently used
the hair-shirt. ..."
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