fustigation — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Slighter palm of martyrdom, however, shall not be denied: martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation.

2. Any kind of beating or flagellation.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Frenzied scenes of fustigations appear in his Historie de Juliette, published in six volumes in 1797.

3. a harsh verbal assault

   Uso

   • broadly
   • numerabile
   • non numerabile