Self-flagellatory
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Adjective
- 1 Characterized by self-flagellation; extremely repentant.
"In this sense, the currently fashionable self-flagellatory school of history is, at the very least, as arrogant and self-centered as the more traditional kind of self-serving history."
- 2 Self-sacrificing.
"In war-time, self-sacrifice would be the obvious appropriate antidote to this depression, and some such mechanism is clearly at work in, for example, Vera Brittain's self-flagellatory dedication to her voluntary nursing, ..."
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More examples"In this sense, the currently fashionable self-flagellatory school of history is, at the very least, as arrogant and self-centered as the more traditional kind of self-serving history."
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