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The answer FLAGELLATION has 6 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of flagellation in various dictionaries:
noun - beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation
noun - beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
The act or practice of flagellating.
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| Possibly fall in late? Go for punishment |
| Scourging |
| Monk's penance, once |
| All of a tingle, perhaps, from such a beating |
| Signal delight about learner getting beating |
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| The artwork seen here depicts this of St. Jerome |
| Part of each day as a hermit might include this act of penance whose name is from the Latin for "whipping" |
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| flogging or beating, either as a religious discipline or for sexual gratification. |
| beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment |
| Flogging or beating, either as a religious discipline or for sexual gratification. |
| The act or practice of flagellating. |
| Biology The flagellar arrangement on an organism. |
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Flagellation (Latin flagellum, "whip"), flogging, whipping or lashing is the act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, lashes, rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails, the sjambok, etc. Typically, flogging is imposed on an unwilling subject as a punishment; however, it can also be submitted to willingly, or performed on oneself, in religious or sadomasochistic contexts. * The strokes are usually aimed at the unclothed back of a person, in certain settings it can be extended to other corporeal areas. For a moderated subform of flagellation, described as bastinado, the soles of a person's bare feet are used as a target for beating (see foot whipping). * In some circumstances the word "flogging" is used loosely to include any sort of corporal punishment, including birching and caning. However, in British legal terminology, a distinction was drawn (and still is, in one or two colonial territories) between "flogging" (with a cat-o'-nine-tails) and "whipping" (formerly |