Scourging is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCOURGING in dictionary:

VERB:
• whip (someone) as a punishment
• cause great suffering to
NOUN:
• a flogging
• a whip used as an instrument of punishment.
• a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering
• act of scourging
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to punish severely

Words related to SCOURGING

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Words that contain SCOURGING

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How to use SCOURGING in a sentence

• Tried by scourging, by stripes, by poverty, by imprisonment, by all manner of danger and trial, they yet remain true.
• She had known that sooner or later he would have to endure the scourging of which he spoke and that it would not grow the lighter with postponement.
• John was not, I think, present at the scourging of Jesus.
• The Blessed Virgin, who had retired to some distance after the scourging of Jesus, again approached to hear the sentence of death pronounced upon her Son and her God.
• The scourging was, after the old Roman fashion, long and stately.
• It was his first scourging, and he felt the insult more than the injury.
• Nor should wise legislators wholly govern themselves by precedents, and conclude that, since scourging has so long prevailed, some virtue must reside in it.
• When with five hundred others I made one of the compelled spectators at the scourging of poor Rose-water, I little thought what Fate had ordained for myself the next day.
• One black man, who had not fortitude to endure scourging, promised to give information about the conspiracy.
• On each side of this path rose and broke the angry little seas lashed up by the scourging wind.
• In the summers there was sickness everywhere, fevers of various kinds scourging all the new settlements.
• After this affair of the scourging, he wielded his pen like a scourge until he died.
• We think it is not improbable that it is from the Jews that the Roman Catholics derived their scourging penance system.
• They are with us day and night, about our path and about our bed, scourging us with the whips of memory, mocking us with empty longing and the hopelessness of despair.
• The bursting shells and scourging rifle fire, sweeping machine guns, banging grenades and bombs were all affairs with which the Signaling Company in the cellar had no connection.
• Henry the Second felt much the same satisfaction the morning after his scourging at the hands of the monks, who were as muscular as they were vindictive.
• His eldest son, Sextus Tarquinius, fled to Gabii, complaining of ill-usage of his father, and showing marks of a severe scourging.
• The pagoda was the nearest cover to them, and they raced for it with all their speed, the quick-firing Mannlichers scourging them with a whistling shower of lead as they flew.
• They turned and fled in the direction from whence they had come, bullets scourging them from three directions at once.
• They also symbolize the blow on the ear, the scourging, and the crown of thorns.
• His chief had ordered him to exercise the utmost severity and harshness, and imposed upon him the task of scourging Berlin like a demon of vengeance.
• There was no abstraction in tying Martha to a whipping-post and scourging her for mourning the loss of her children.
• I call on the fair merchant, who has reaped his harvest upon the seas, that he assist in scourging from those seas the worst pirates that ever infested them.
• Now, as a concession to them, he will disgrace this man by a public scourging and let him go as harmless.
• The scourging was with bunches of leather strips with jagged pieces of bone and lead fastened in the ends.
• The scourging might be preliminary to crucifixion or a substitute.
• They have abandoned their idols, and take pleasure in scourging themselves on Fridays.
• He ordered the scouts to be examined by scourging, to see if they would persist in their tale, whereupon they broke down and revealed the true position of the army.
• Drusus had sent Agias ahead to Cornelia, as soon as the poor boy had recovered in the least from his brutal scourging.
• He begins with scourging the reckless security already referred to.

Similar words containing SCOURG without suffix ing

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