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Fustigation

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Noun
  1. 1
    A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling. countable, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    Any kind of beating or flagellation. countable, uncountable

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

  3. 3
    a harsh verbal assault broadly, countable, uncountable

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