Definition of flagellation
: the act or practice of flagellating;
especially
: the practice of a flagellant
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Golf is a high form of self-flagellation appreciated only by those who attempt it.
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What had been, for the Greeks, a desire for ostentatious success became in medieval Europe a struggle to control the self through prayer and flagellation—to battle inner badness and become pure.
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Suddenly, looking critically at stories that forecast our impending doom at the hands of technology or capitalism or white supremacy became more of an exercise in miserable self-flagellation than of actual intellectual or moral analysis.
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Like self-flagellation, the exercise takes on a reverential quality among followers.
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The question isn’t about self-flagellation, but about what is whiteness, and what has this done to me?
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Rock still finds room for the funny during his self-flagellation.
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The party underwent a high-profile exercise in self-flagellation, decrying the excessive debt of the Bush era and demanding higher standards.
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Following this flagellation was an equally strange tradition, in which men selected women's names at random to decide who would remain together the rest of the festival, or if the match was successful, for life.
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First Known Use of flagellation
15th century
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of flagellation
: the practice of a flagellant
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