Flagellist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Flagellist is a noun meaning One who administers punishment by whipping.
Meaning
One who administers punishment by whipping.
More Meanings
- One who whips him or herself as an act of religious penitence; flagellant.
- One who whips others or is whipped by others as a sexual fetish.
- One who is abusive or punishing.
Example Sentences
I sit with the doctor and his wife at dinner and tell them about my experience with the Indian flagellists.
Many people advocate the tightening of the law both to protect children from flagellists and to suppress flagellant pornography.
Then comes the next and the next until the sadist, the flagellist, the criminally insane demand their places, and society ceases to exist.
They hold the head of the defendant, he nowise resisting, upon the ground, and bare his thighs, while the falgellist administers the twenty strokes with a flat bamboo cricket-bat.
Word Forms
- flagellists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include flagellator, disciplinant, whipsman, horsewhipper, whipman, castigator.
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