flagellant








noun

  1. a person who flagellates or scourges himself or herself for religious discipline.
  2. a person who derives sexual pleasure from whipping or being whipped by another person.
  3. (often initial capital letter) one of a medieval European sect of fanatics who practiced scourging in public.

adjective

  1. flagellating.
  2. severely criticizing: a flagellant attack on the opposition party.

noun

  1. a person who whips himself or others either as part of a religious penance or for sexual gratification
  2. (often capital) (in medieval Europe) a member of a religious sect who whipped themselves in public
n.

late 16c., from Latin flagellantem (nominative flagellans), present participle of flagellare “to scourge, lash” (see flagellum).

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