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Definition: Flagellation |
FlagellationNoun1. Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flagellation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Flagellation \Flag`el*la"tion\, noun. [Latin expression flagellatio: compare to the French expression flagellation.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Flagellation is the act of beating the human body, typically with implements such as whips, paddles, or canes.
Flagellation can refer to:
- Corporal punishment by beating (see Spanking).
- The paraphilia of beating the body for erotic purposes.
- A practice of mortification of the flesh for religious purposes; examples include the Christian Flagellant movement of the thirteenth century and members of Opus Dei in the present day.
Also see
- Erotic spanking
- Algolagnia
- BDSM
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flagellation."
Synonyms: FlagellationSynonyms: flogging (n), lashing (n), tanning (n), whipping (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Asceticism | Mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation; penance; fasting; martyrdom. |
Atonement | Penance, fasting, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, white sheet, shrift, flagellation, lustration; purgation, purgatory. |
Punishment | Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade. |
Rite | Seven sacraments, impanation, subpanation, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession; maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes; penance; (atonement); telling of beads, processional; thurification, incense, holy water, aspersion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flagellation |
| English words defined with "flagellation": Flagellator. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Flagellation" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (flagellation, flogging, lashing). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Flagellation (1898) | |
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| "Flagellation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flagellation" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "flagellation": self-flagellation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flagellation | 44 |
christ flagellation | 6 |
flagellation self | 6 |
female flagellation | 5 |
convent flagellation nun self | 3 |
flagellation nun self | 2 |
flagellation victorian | 2 |
crucifixion flagellation philippine | 2 |
christ della flagellation francesca piero | 2 |
flagellation nun | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flagellation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fshikullim (flogging, lashing, slash, whip, whipping), rrahje me kamzhik (flogging, lashing, whip, whipping). (various references) | |
Arabic | ضرب بالسوط (flog, switch, whip, whipping), جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бичуване. (various references) | |
Czech | bièování (lash, lashing, whipping). (various references) | |
Dutch | geseling. (various references) | |
French | flagellation (flogging). (various references) | |
German | Flagellomanie, Flagellation, Flagellantismus, Flagellantentum, Geisselung (lashing), Geißelung (castigation, lashing), Geißel (scourge), Auspeitschung (lashing). (various references) | |
Greek | μαστίγωμα (castigation, flogging, lashing, strapping, thrashing, whipping). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הלקאה (beating, flogging, striking, stripe, thrashing, whipping), הצלפה (flick, lash, lashing, slash, stroke, whipping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | korbácsolás (whipping). (various references) | |
Italian | flagellazione (flogging, scourging), flagellamento (scourging). (various references) | |
Manx | scuitchey (flagellate, lash, scourge, switch, whisk). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agellationflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flagelação (mortification). (various references) | |
Romanian | flagelare (flogging). (various references) | |
Russian | бичевание, порка (flogging, lashing, licking). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šibanje bičem. (various references) | |
Spanish | flagelacion, flagelación (whipping). (various references) | |
Swedish | piskel, gisslande. (various references) | |
Turkish | kamçılama (flogging, swish, whip, whipping), kırbaçlama (flogging, lash, lashing, whipping). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бичування (castigation). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hình phạt bằng roi sự đánh bằng roi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flagellation": flagellations. (additional references) | |
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"Flagellation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flagelation, flagellatio, flaggellation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "flagellation" (pronounced 'Flag`el*la"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-g-i-l-l-l-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: allegation, flagellant. | |
-3 letters: allegiant, fellating, fellation, flagellin. | |
-4 letters: agential, alginate, allanite, fellatio, flagella, flatline, flatling, flatlong, floatage, floating, flotilla, gelation, legation, lifelong, longleaf. | |
-5 letters: aeolian, alation, allonge, antilog, atingle, elating, elation, falling, fantail, fatling, felling, felting, finagle, floatel, flotage, foaling, foliage, foliate, gallant, gallate, gallein, galleon, galleta, galliot, gelatin, gellant, genital, gillnet, illegal, inflate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-g-i-l-l-l-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: flagellations. | |
+2 letters: dinoflagellate. | |
+3 letters: dinoflagellates. | |
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