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= flagellant, n. Obsolete.
A person who scourges himself or herself as a form of religious discipline or penance. Cf. discipline, n. 1.
One who scourges himself by way of religious discipline or penance; esp. one of a sect of fanatics (Latin flagellantes) that arose in the 13th…
One who scourges himself.