Meaning of Fustigation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any kind of beating or flagellation.
   countable, uncountable
3. a harsh verbal assault
   broadly, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

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