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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackcloth/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackcloth/#x1)
- The beggar wore sackcloth and ashes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackcloth/#x2)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1214/)
- [I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1120/)
- [Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1263/)
- [For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.105/)
- [For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1273/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sackcloth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackcloth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.