What's the difference between sackcloth and sackclothed?

Sackcloth


Definition:

  • (n.) Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist ; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals.
  • (2) The matrix attached to the growth substratum had a "sackcloth-like" structure as seen by phase contrast, immunofluorescence, and scanning electron microscopy, and it had a vaguely filamentous ultrastructure similar to that seen in intact cell layers.
  • (3) Especially when Beyoncé on downtime is still a stunningly beautiful woman – it would take sackcloth and ashes to make her look truly awful.
  • (4) One would have thought that the Argentinian bishops would have seized the opportunity to call for pardon for themselves and put on sackcloth and ashes as the sentences were announced in Córdoba but that has not so far happened.
  • (5) Poor old Nick Clegg knows it’s all over but he hopes a mixture of sackcloth and ashes and disowning his past will save him.
  • (6) On our conditions, of course, in sackcloth and ashes: a small price to pay to save the European dream.
  • (7) The argument that recommends ankle-length sackcloth in order to allow men to get on with the real work?
  • (8) However, since this is the [Catholic church’s] jubilee year of mercy , I have forgiven these inspectors for their misjudgments, and they did not have to wear sackcloth and ashes all the way to Ofsted headquarters in London.
  • (9) An earthquake has happened in British politics and I did not foresee it,” he said, sackcloth and ashes just out of shot on College Green.
  • (10) Famed for his self-denial, Severinus is said to have slept on sackcloth.

Sackclothed


Definition:

  • (a.) Clothed in sackcloth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist ; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals.
  • (2) The matrix attached to the growth substratum had a "sackcloth-like" structure as seen by phase contrast, immunofluorescence, and scanning electron microscopy, and it had a vaguely filamentous ultrastructure similar to that seen in intact cell layers.
  • (3) Especially when Beyoncé on downtime is still a stunningly beautiful woman – it would take sackcloth and ashes to make her look truly awful.
  • (4) One would have thought that the Argentinian bishops would have seized the opportunity to call for pardon for themselves and put on sackcloth and ashes as the sentences were announced in Córdoba but that has not so far happened.
  • (5) Poor old Nick Clegg knows it’s all over but he hopes a mixture of sackcloth and ashes and disowning his past will save him.
  • (6) On our conditions, of course, in sackcloth and ashes: a small price to pay to save the European dream.
  • (7) The argument that recommends ankle-length sackcloth in order to allow men to get on with the real work?
  • (8) However, since this is the [Catholic church’s] jubilee year of mercy , I have forgiven these inspectors for their misjudgments, and they did not have to wear sackcloth and ashes all the way to Ofsted headquarters in London.
  • (9) An earthquake has happened in British politics and I did not foresee it,” he said, sackcloth and ashes just out of shot on College Green.
  • (10) Famed for his self-denial, Severinus is said to have slept on sackcloth.

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