Flagellative

Quick meaning: Flagellative is an adjective meaning Pertaining to flagellation; flagellatory.

Meaning

Pertaining to flagellation; flagellatory.

Example Sentences

He then minutely recounted the particulars of her enchantment, together with what he had seen in the cave of Montesinos, and the means prescribed by Merlin for her restoration, namely, Sancho's flagellative penance.

"I wanted the regular announcement of the blocks as they come along to have the whiplike quality of time," says the poetic dramatist, who as an author having his most complex play tried out for only three weeks prior to its Broadway opening is supremely conscious of the flagellative relentlessness of clock and calendar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flagellatory, fellatory, endoflagellar, filamentary, filamented, formicatory.

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