noun. A shirt made of haircloth; a cilice; especially one worn by ascetics or the penitent

adjective. Advocating or adopting a relatively ascetic lifestyle, especially for environmentalist reasons.

"I would call a kind of hairshirt need, a-- a need to kind of punish himself in -- in living in very, very difficult ways."

flagellant  sackcloth  self-mortification  

Hampshire  harsher  harshest  heirship