Usage of "flagellation"

ruso

порка

portugués

flagelação

español

flagelación

catalán

flagel·lació

Act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, lashes etc.

Términos relacionados

corporal punishment

flagelación

Uso de flagellation en inglés

It makes for a fantastic spectacle and a fascinating exercise in self-flagellation. 
 The Guardian 

Then again, there's no need to make a massive show of self-flagellation. 
 The Guardian 

As ever, Euro offered an opportunity for the ritual self-flagellation of the English. 
 Radio NZ 

It wasn't quite the display of self-flagellation that some reformers would have liked. 
 The Irish Times 

He went back into his room and beat on his head in self-flagellation. 
 Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America 

With a return ticket courage becomes an intellectual exercise, like a monk's flagellation. 
 The Quiet American 

Javier looked to him, curiosity piqued over self-doubt and flagellation, and more welcome. 
 The pretender's crown 

Another popular but unpleasant cure was by flagellation; so that Romeo's 
 Elizabethan Demonology / An Essay in Illustration of the Belief ... 

Only she could continue self-flagellation lodged there in the brain whipping herself in memory. 
 Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America 

Either way, there's been a lot of time for self-flagellation. 
 The Guardian 

The selected youths then moved within the altar and underwent the test of flagellation. 
 Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 / Seventeenth Annual... 

As a ritual custom flagellation is preserved to the present day by some sects. 
 Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 

Behind him Shay remained thankfully oblivious to his silent self-flagellation. 
 Embrace the darkness 

Then, as suddenly as it had begun, the self-flagellation ended. 
 Ape House 

This is mortification of the flesh as extreme as monastic hair shirts and flagellation. 
 The Guardian 

The practice of flagellation is maintained in the Jesuit church there, as in other places. 
 The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 / 1604-1605 ... 