Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hairshirted

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hair-shirt-ed
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Wearing a hairshirt.

adj

Humble and penitent; ascetic.

Example Sentences

"The Gospels, contrasting Jesus with the hairshirted John the Baptist, and placing him with revelers and at dinner tables, […]"
"Even a hairshirted Calvinist derived pleasure from his righteous self-deprivation: Sacrifice can be its own reward and source of perverse joy."
"Distinguished scientists are beginning to confront the notion that to save the planet, an age of hair-shirted austerity is now necessary."

Etymology

From hairshirt + -ed.

Inflected Forms

hair-shirted (alternative)

Questions

What does hairshirted mean?: Wearing a hairshirt.
Where does hairshirted come from?: From hairshirt + -ed.

How to pronounce hairshirted

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