fustigation
noun 3
Definitions
noun
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.
2
Any kind of beating or flagellation.
Frenzied scenes of fustigations appear in his Historie de Juliette, published in six volumes in 1797.
3
a harsh verbal assault
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