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fustigation

noun

Definitions

  1. A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.

    A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.

    • Slighter palm of martyrdom, however, shall not be denied: martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation.

  2. Any kind of beating or flagellation.

    • Frenzied scenes of fustigations appear in his Historie de Juliette, published in six volumes in 1797.

  3. a harsh verbal assault

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