fustigation
English
Noun
fustigation (countable and uncountable, plural fustigations)
- a beating with a club
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book or page number):
- Slighter palm of martyrdom, however, shall not be denied: martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation.
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- (by extension) a harsh verbal assault
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Further reading
- “fustigation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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