| 单词 | flagellant |
| 释义 | flagellant (once / 44941 pages) n WORD FAMILY flagellant: flagellants USAGE EXAMPLESIn “The Club,” both the aggressors and the aggrieved keep pouring salt in their own wounds, like the open sores of a flagellant. Washington Post(Feb 18, 2016) Our parents resorted to the lash the way flagellants in the plague years resorted to the scourge. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me(2015) And all along I had thought that the Eurozone had done this to themselves because flagellant cults had never really died out in Europe. Economist(Apr 30, 2013) 1n a person who whips himself as a religious penance Hyper penitent (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) 2n a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification Hyper masochist someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment |
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