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fustigation

fustigation noun: a beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.

Noun

fustigation (countable and uncountable, plural fustigations)

  1. A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.
    • Slighter palm of martyrdom, however, shall not be denied: martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation.1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes), page 150
  2. Any kind of beating or flagellation.
    • Frenzied scenes of fustigations appear in his Historie de Juliette, published in six volumes in 1797.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 97
  3. (broadly) a harsh verbal assault

Forms of fustigation

pluralfustigations

Questions about fustigation

What does fustigation mean?
Fustigation means a beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.
What part of speech is fustigation?
Fustigation is a noun.
What is the plural of fustigation?
The plural of fustigation is fustigations.

Words near fustigation in the dictionary

  1. fustiest
  2. fustigate
  3. fustigated
  4. fustigates
  5. fustigating
  6. fustigation
  7. fustigations
  8. fustigator
  9. fustigators
  10. fustilarian
  11. fustilarians

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