fustigation

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noun

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

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nounfustigation (countable and uncountable, plural fustigations)

plural fustigations

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

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

    1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes), page 150
  2. countableuncountableAny kind of beating or flagellation.

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

    1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 97
  3. broadlycountableuncountablea harsh verbal assault

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fustigation,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fustigation.

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