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sackcloth and ashes collapse: a display of extreme remorse or repentance or grief

mourning collapse: state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one

Day of Atonement collapse

repentance collapse: remorse for your past conduct

Yom Kippur collapse: (Judaism) a solemn and major fast day on the Jewish calendar; 10th of Tishri; its observance is one of the requirements of the Mosaic law

asceticism collapse: rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint; the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state

penitence collapse

fasting collapse

flagellation collapse

penance collapse: a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution; voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

purgatory collapse: (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins; a temporary condition of torment or suffering; "a purgatory of drug abuse"

purgation collapse

mortification collapse: (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)

black collapse: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"; (board games) the darker pieces; the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white); a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa); popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928); British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799); marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"; of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.; extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"; being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"; (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"; soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"; dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"; (of coffee) without cream or sugar; (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"; stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy; (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"; offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"; (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"; harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

nylon collapse: a synthetic fabric; a thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers

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