Flagellation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLAGELLATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act or practice of flagellating
• A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.
• beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation
• beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or practice of flagellating; the practice of a flagellant

Words related to FLAGELLATION

flagellate14

Words that contain FLAGELLATION

flagellations17

How to use FLAGELLATION in a sentence

• At last the whip came, and, disregarding alike the presence of a stranger, and the entreaties of a woman, he began the flagellation with murderous earnest.
• The poor fellow was writhing under the cruel infliction of a flagellation with a raw-hide, and rent the air with his cries.
• Canning, the proposition, for example, to suppress the flagellation of women, had excited a veritable explosion.
• When Jesus fell down at the foot of the pillar, after the flagellation, I saw Claudia Procles, the wife of Pilate, sent some large pieces of linen to the Mother of God.
• I witnessed the flagellation of several pieces of property of either sex.
• Not a word passed between the brothers about either the ducking or the flagellation.
• These conditions provided a rich soil for the propagation of the crowd-mind when, in the eleventh century, flagellation, a voluntary self-scourging, was preached by the monks.
• Substituting flagellation for reciting penitential psalms was advocated by the reformers.
• After a Chinese flagellation, the culprit is compelled to go down on his knees and humbly thank the magistrate for the trouble he has been put to to correct his morals.
• They believed that the vengeance of a wrathful God must immediately descend upon the country, and as a penance the practice of flagellation was introduced.
• Mutilation, flagellation, and the abundant use of the knout prevailed.
• They mortified the flesh by fasting and cruel penance, drawing blood from their bodies by flagellation or by piercing themselves with the thorns of the aloe.
• The five Dolorous or Sorrowful Mysteries are, our Lord in the Garden of Olives, the Flagellation, Christ crowned with Thorns, the Procession to Calvary, the Crucifixion.
• Examples of his work may perhaps be seen in the nearest villain with a big hat in the Flagellation chapel, and in two cherubs in the Assumption of the Virgin.
• The contest continued during his life, at the close of which they not only shut their doors against his corpse, but dragged it from the coffin and gave it a public flagellation.
• The practice of flagellation is maintained in the Jesuit church there, as in other places.

Similar words containing FLAGELLA without suffix tion

flagella12 flagellar13 flagellant14 flagellate14 flagellants15 flagellated16 flagellates15 flagellator15 biflagellate18 flagellating17 flagellators16 flagellatory19 flagellantism19 flagellations17 dinoflagellate19 flagellantisms20 hemoflagellate23 dinoflagellates20 haemoflagellate24 hemoflagellates24 phytoflagellate27 phytoflagellates28

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