'sackcloth and ashes' definitions:
Definition of 'sackcloth and ashes'
(from WordNet)
noun
A display of extreme remorse or repentance or grief
Synonyms of 'sackcloth and ashes'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- asceticism,
- black,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- crape,
- cypress,
- cypress lawn,
- Day of Atonement,
- deep mourning,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- hair shirt,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mortification,
- mourning,
- mourning band,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- repentance,
- sackcloth,
- weeds,
- yew,
- Yom Kippur