fustigation

English

Noun

fustigation (countable and uncountable, plural fustigations)

1. 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.

2. (by extension) a harsh verbal assault

Related terms

• fustigate

Anagrams

• fugitations

French

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Noun

fustigation f (plural fustigations)

1. fustigation

Further reading

• “fustigation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.