Fustigation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fustigation is a noun meaning A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.
Meaning
A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.
More Meanings
- Any kind of beating or flagellation.
- (by extension) a harsh verbal assault
Example Sentences
Frenzied scenes of fustigations appear in his Historie de Juliette, published in six volumes in 1797.
Slighter palm of martyrdom, however, shall not be denied: martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation.
Word Forms
- fustigations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include flogging, bludgeoning, bastinado, cudgelling, pummelling, scourging.
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