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fustigation (countable and uncountable, plural fustigations)

1. A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.
   • 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:

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

2. Any kind of beating or flagellation.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 97:

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

3. (by extension) a harsh verbal assault

関連する語

• fustigate

アナグラム

• fugitations