Meaning of FLAGELLATION
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| | Definition: | | [n] beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment |
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| | Synonyms: | | flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping |
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| | See Also: | | beating, drubbing, horsewhipping, lacing, self-flagellation, thrashing, trouncing, whacking | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Flag`el*la"tion\, n. [L. flagellatio: cf. F.
flagellation.]
A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. --Garth.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstinence, Albigensianism, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, Catharism, clubbing, cold purgatorial fires, corporal punishment, cowhiding, cudgeling, Day of Atonement, drubbing, eremitism, fasting, flailing, flogging, Franciscanism, fustigation, hair shirt, horsewhipping, lacing, lashing, lustration, maceration, mendicantism, monachism, monasticism, mortification, penance, penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, pistol-whipping, purgation, purgatory, puritanism, rawhiding, repentance, rigor, Sabbatarianism, sackcloth and ashes, scourging, self-denial, self-mortification, spanking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing, Trappism, trouncing, truncheoning, voluntary poverty, Waldensianism, whipping, Yoga, Yom Kippur |
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