'Flagellation' definitions:
Definition of 'flagellation'
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Definition of 'Flagellation'
From: GCIDE
- Flagellation \Flag`el*la"tion\, n. [L. flagellatio: cf. F. flagellation.] A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. --Garth. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flagellation'
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- 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