cilice

He wears a green mantle over a cilice of camel-hair.

Traditional forms of physical mortification are the cilice and hair-shirts.

Without the cilice, I find my life as an American consumer unbearably comfortable.

She also saw the bloody cilice around his thigh, the wound beneath it dripping.

Looking down, he examined the spiked cilice belt clamped around his thigh.

At least his captors had removed the cilice.

"How about the prints on the cilice belt?"

In reality, numeraries do wear a "cilice," a chain with points, under their pants for two hours a day.

I've even made a point of wearing shorts around so that people can see that the thigh band, the cilice, leaves no marks.

Although Silas already had worn his cilice today longer than the requisite two hours, he knew today was no ordinary day.

He had yet to remove the cilice belt, and he could feel the blood trickling down his inner thigh.

Was he wearing, Sarrum wondered, a cilice, or a spiked chain around his thigh?

"He was wearing a cilice," Teabing explained.

He dons a metal cilice on his thigh and proceeds to flagellate himself with a whip for the sins of murder.

Another university student had used his barbed cilice belt more often than the recommended two hours a day and had given himself a near lethal infection.

His thigh flexed instinctively, causing the barbed cilice belt to cut painfully into his flesh.

Traditional forms still include prayers, while corporal punishments such as the wearing of a cilice and public humiliations have become rare, even in monastic practice.

Dutch metal band CiLiCe has been formed by members of well known bands N3uk!

Ignoring the slash of pain from his cilice, Silas retrieved his gun and began the long trek up the grassy slope.

A Cilice or small metal chain with inwardly-pointing spikes that is worn around the upper thigh is another device used.

Numeraries in Opus Dei generally wear a cilice for two hours each day.

To calm down his sexual desires Miguel resorts to penitence and self flagellation punishing his own flesh with a cilice.

Silas, the murderous "Opus Dei monk", uses a cilice and flagellates himself.

"Does God's Work necessarily include vows of chastity, tithing, and atonement for sins through self-flagellation and the cilice?"

Splinters of pain tore up Silas's body as the crutch made perfect contact with his cilice, crushing the barbs into his already raw flesh.