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Webster 1913 Edition

Sackcloth

Sack′clothˊ

(?; 115)
,
Noun.
Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.
Gird you with
sackcloth
, and mourn before Abner.
2 Sam. iii. 31.
Thus with
sackcloth
I invest my woe.
Sandys.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sackcloth

SACK'CLOTH

,
Noun.
[sack and cloth.] Cloth of which sacks are made; coarse cloth. This word is chiefly used in Scripture to denote a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress or mortification.
Gird you with sackcloth and mourn before Abner. 2Sam. 3.
Esther 4. Job 46.

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