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- noun Plural form of
hairshirt .
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Examples
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At the same time, it also contains the greatest number of examples of extreme religious discipline in the form of hairshirts, flagellation, and other types of bodily mortifications.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Do these people wear hairshirts and self flagellate?
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Like others leaders from other segments of society here in the meeting of the machers, they did not don hairshirts.
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There were many saints who wore hairshirts all their lives.
"Virgin conception would be more plausible if Mary was a man." Ann Althouse 2009
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These fools were jokes before the election and they especially are now as they don their hairshirts.
When you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009
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Like other leaders from other segments of society here in the meeting of the machers, they did not don hairshirts.
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"Do these people wear hairshirts and self flagellate?"
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Like other leaders from other segments of society here in the meeting of the machers, they did not don hairshirts.
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Oh, dear God, here comes the weepingly self-indulgent hairshirts and self-flagellation:
Oh, shriek. CC 2008
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And yet, while retarded whackjobs like Hunter were rending their hairshirts over Terri Schiavo, there was another case that was making some headlines as well.
Archive 2008-02-01 Lindsay Stewart 2008
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