vapulation

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin vāpulāre (to be flogged).

Noun[edit]

vapulation (usually uncountable, plural vapulations)

  1. (obsolete) The act of beating or whipping.
    • 1698, Ned Ward, The London Spy, I.2:
      He all the time begs their Mercy, like an Offender at a Whipping-Post, and beseeches their forbearance; but the more importunate he seems for their favourable usage, the severer Vapulation they are to exercise upon him […].