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fustigations

fustigations is the plural of fustigation.

Meaning of fustigation

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

Questions about fustigations

What is fustigations the plural of?
Fustigations is the plural of fustigation.

Words near fustigations in the dictionary

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

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