Excoriation

Definitions

1. The act of excoriating or flaying.
   countable, uncountable
2. The excoriated place, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
   countable, uncountable
3. A severe verbal denouncing.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.”

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