hairshirted

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

hairshirt +‎ -ed

Adjective

hairshirted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a hairshirt.
    • 2002, James Carroll, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 115:
      The Gospels, contrasting Jesus with the hairshirted John the Baptist, and placing him with revelers and at dinner tables, […]
  2. (figurative) Humble and penitent; ascetic.
    • 2010, Andrew Benett, Ann O'Reilly, Consumed: Rethinking Business in the Era of Mindful Spending, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 113:
      Even a hairshirted Calvinist derived pleasure from his righteous self-deprivation: Sacrifice can be its own reward and source of perverse joy.
    • 2011, Andrew Marr, A History of 20th Century Britain‎, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
      Distinguished scientists are beginning to confront the notion that to save the planet, an age of hair-shirted austerity is now necessary.
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