scourge
noun
a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
self-scourging
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a word derived from
scourge.
Example Sentences
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The flagellants exerted some of the suggestions of the processions, and they used dramatic devices to set forth their ideas, to say nothing of the dramatic element in the self-scourging.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
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.
From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey
The practice of self-scourging has been established in the Roman Catholic Church from time immemorial.
From Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous
Processions of weeping, praying, self-scourging, and half-naked penitents appeared in the streets of all the towns of Christendom.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
