sackcloth

«sackcloth» in Mova's school dictionary: A rough, coarse cloth made from sacking, once worn to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (no plural)

meaning for a pupil

A rough, coarse cloth made from sacking, once worn to show sadness or sorrow. tree →

sense in the lessons

a poor or sad person dressed in rough cloth in old stories

examples

• She had been dressed in a garment of sackcloth. tree →
• The beggar wore sackcloth and ashes. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
• I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
• Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
• For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
• For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sackcloth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.