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Flagellation

Flagellation Meaning & Definition
Flagellation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flagellation?

[n] beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

Synonyms | Synonyms for Flagellation: flogging | lashing | tanning | whipping

Related Terms | Find terms related to Flagellation: 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

See Also | beating | drubbing | horsewhipping | lacing | self-flagellation | thrashing | trouncing | whacking

Flagellation In Webster's Dictionary

\Flag`el*la"tion\, n. [L. flagellatio: cf. F. flagellation.] A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. --Garth.

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