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self-flagellations

self-flagellations is the plural of self-flagellation.

Meaning of self-flagellation

Noun

self-flagellation (countable and uncountable, plural self-flagellations)

  1. (historical) The practice of whipping oneself as penance for sins.
  2. (informal) Intense feelings of guilt.
    • It was [...] followed by feelings of immense guilt and self-flagellation. What did I do wrong? What did I forget?2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 70

Questions about self-flagellations

What is self-flagellations the plural of?
Self-flagellations is the plural of self-flagellation.

Words near self-flagellations in the dictionary

  1. self-financing
  2. self-finished
  3. self-finishing
  4. self-fitting
  5. self-flagellation
  6. self-flagellations
  7. self-flagellatory
  8. self-flattery
  9. self-focus
  10. self-focused
  11. self-focuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-flagellations (page history and authors); self-flagellation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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