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flag·el·lant       [flaj-uh-luhnt, fluh-jel-uhnt] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person who flagellates or scourges himself or herself for religious discipline.
2.a person who derives sexual pleasure from whipping or being whipped by another person.
3.(often initial capital letter) one of a medieval European sect of fanatics who practiced scourging in public.
–adjective
4.flagellating.
5.severely criticizing: a flagellant attack on the opposition party.
[Origin: 1555–65; < L flagellant- (s. of flagellāns) whipping, prp. of flagellāre. See flagellum, -ant]

—Related forms
flag·el·lant·ism, noun
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flag·el·lant       (flāj'ə-lənt, flə-jěl'ənt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. One who whips, especially one who scourges oneself for religious discipline or public penance.
  2. One who seeks sexual gratification in beating or being beaten by another person.


[Latin flagellāns, flagellant-, from present participle of flagellāre, to whip; see flagellate.]

flag'el·lant adj., flag'el·lant·ism n.
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flagellant

noun
1. a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification 
2. a person who whips himself as a religious penance 

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Flagellant

Flag"el*lant\, n. [L. flagellans, p. p. of flagellare: cf.F. flagellant. See Flagellate.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.

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