flagellation|flagellations in English

noun

[flag·el·la·tion || ‚flædʒə'leɪʃn]

whipping, lashing, flogging, beating

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1. These films include bondage, spanking and flagellation, all illegal to send through the U.S. mails.

2. The Jewish practice of Breast beating however, is not flagellation and is not intended to be painful.

3. “Flagellation was one of the few outlets open to a fear-ridden population,” notes the book Medieval Heresy.

4. Viewing the plague as a punishment from God, some sought to abate God’s anger through self-inflicted whipping, or flagellation.

5. 11 Flagellation and other exotic practices formed part of its creed and Rasputin entered into the spirit of these with enthusiasm.

6. Embracing the culture of upper-white self-flagellation can spur Avowedly enlightened whites to eagerly cheer on their Asian American comrades who show (abstract, faceless, numberless) lower-white

7. Asceticism is the practice of self-denial in an attempt to draw closer to God. It may include such disciplines as fasting, celibacy, wearing simple or uncomfortable clothing, poverty, sleep deprivation, and in extreme forms, flagellation, and self-mutilation.

8. A fat, stalwart, Bacchant, boorish race they are, giving signs of anything but fasting and flagellation; and I know of nothing that would so dissipate the romance which invests monks and nuns in the eyes of some, like bringing a ship-load of them over to this country, and letting their admirers see and smell them.