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