Flagellation Definition

flăjə-lāshən
noun
The act or practice of flagellating.
American Heritage
A whipping or flogging, esp. as a religious discipline or for sexual stimulation.
Webster's New World
The flagellar arrangement on an organism.
American Heritage Medicine

A beating consisting in lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as (in principle implement-precise) a whipping or scourging.

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Noun

Singular:
flagellation
Plural:
flagellations

Origin of Flagellation

  • From French flagellation, from Latin flagellatio, from flagellare, from flagellum, diminutive of flagrum (“whip”)

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  • From flagellum, 'elongated filiform appendage', itself a diminutive of Latin flagrum 'whip', so closely related to etymology 1

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Flagellation Sentence Examples

  • A zealot for monastic and clerical reform, he introduced a more severe discipline, including the practice of flagellation, into the house, which, under his rule, quickly attained celebrity, and became a model for other foundations.

  • Voluntary flagellation, as a form of exalted devotion, occurs in almost all religions.

  • Ritual flagellation existed among the Jews, and, according to Buxtorf (Synagoga judaica, Basel, 1603), was one of the ceremonies of the day of the Great Pardon.

  • Gradually, however, voluntary flagellation appeared in the libri poenitentiales as a very efficacious means of penance.

  • In Germany, in 1414, there was a recrudescence of the epidemic of flagellation, which then became a clearly-formulated heresy.

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