Flagellation
[n] beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
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abstinence, Albigensianism, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, Catharism, clubbing, cold purgatorial fires, corporal punishment, cowhiding, cudgeling, Day of Atonem