flagellation

Noun

Meaning

A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tanning lashing whipping flogging bane flog battery hiding beating fasting abstinence penance austerity banishment asceticism

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Antonyms

felicity solution advantage benefit save answer

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Hypernyms

beating licking thrashing lacing whacking drubbing

Hyponyms

self-flagellation horsewhipping

Phrases with the word

foot flagellation

Examples

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation. Noël Coward

As far back as the 1590s, flagellation within an erotic setting is recorded. Source: Internet

Representations of erotic spanking and flagellation make up a large portion of Victorian pornography, for instance 1000 Nudes by Koetzle. Source: Internet

No microbe in the world, after all, could possibly withstand the flagellation with birch branch brooms that one receives at a traditional Belarusian banya. Source: Internet

Here ritual flagellation called diamastigosis took place, in which young adolescent men were whipped in a ceremony overseen by the priestess. Source: Internet

In 1822, Britain repealed the death penalty for over 100 crimes, and punishments such as drawing and quartering and flagellation fell out of use. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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