put on wear sackcloth and ashes

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• wear on sackcloth and ashes — wear, put on, etc. ˌsackcloth and ˈashes idiom to behave in a way that shows that you are sorry for sth that you have done Main entry: ↑sackclothidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• put on sackcloth and ashes — wear, put on, etc. ˌsackcloth and ˈashes idiom to behave in a way that shows that you are sorry for sth that you have done Main entry: ↑sackclothidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• Lamentation — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Expression of pain. < N PARAG:Lamentation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 lament lament lamentation Sgm: N 1 wail wail complaint plaint murmur mutter grumble groan moan whine …   English dictionary for students

• ASSIMILATION — ASSIMILATION. In general the sociocultural process in which the sense and consciousness of association with one national and cultural group changes to identification with another such group, so that the merged individual or group may partially or …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• mortify — v 1. humiliate, humble, bring down, Inf. take or bring down a notch or peg, Sl. put down, make [s.o.] eat humble pie, pull down, make lowly, bring low, teach [s.o.] his place, Inf. make [s.o.] sing small, meeken, chasten, subdue; disgrace, shame …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• mourn — v 1. grieve, sorrow, lament, ache, suffer, eat one s heart out, be sad, be anguished, bewail, bemoan; weep for, be sorry for, deplore, regret, repine, rue, rue the day; yearn, languish, despair; break down, give way, melt into tears, cry one s… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• ceremonial object — ▪ religion Introduction  any object used in a ritual or a religious ceremony.       Throughout the history of religions and cultures, objects used in cults, rituals, and sacred ceremonies have almost always been of both utilitarian and symbolic… …   Universalium