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Flogging   /flˈɑgɪŋ/   Listen
Flogging

noun
1.
Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment.  Synonyms: flagellation, lashing, tanning, whipping.



Flog

verb
(past & past part. flogged; pres. part. flogging)
1.
Beat severely with a whip or rod.  Synonyms: lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip.  "The children were severely trounced"
2.
Beat with a cane.  Synonyms: cane, lambast, lambaste.






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"Flogging" Quotes from Famous Books



... I never quarrel with thy sermonizing, and therefore give me credit for submitting to many a lecture from Sir John de Walton and thyself; but thou drivest this a little too far, if thou canst not let a day pass without giving me a flogging. Credit me, Sir John de Walton will not thank thee, if thou term him one too old to remember that he himself had once some green sap in his veins. Ay, thus it is, the old man will not forget that he has once been young, nor the young ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... for many years editor of the Daily Examiner, is an advocate of woman's rights and was instrumental in getting an act, known as "Senator Roach's bill to Punish Wife-whippers," passed. It provided that such offenders should be punished by flogging upon the bare back at the whipping-post. A wise and just law, but it was afterward declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Hon. James G. Maguire, a brilliant and rising young lawyer, a member of the legislature in 1875, now a judge of the Superior Court ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... flogged? Oh yes! And how? Elya says he will be avenged for the floggings he gets. Some day or other he will pay back the "Rebbe" in such a way that his children's children will remember it. That's what Elya says after each flogging. ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich

... destruction of the School Records of Admission, which dated back to the sixteenth century." Against this chorus of denunciation, I will quote from a letter the late Dr. Martineau wrote me about Borrow: "It is true that I had to hoist (not 'horse') Borrow for his flogging; but not that there was anything exceptional, or capable of leaving permanent scars in the infliction: Mr. Valpy was not given to excess of that kind." It is a pity that the earliest biographers did not get the opinion of some of Borrow's surviving schoolfellows as to their ...
— Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration - Norwich, July 5th, 1913 • James Hooper

... excogitated in past centuries were varied: flogging, hard labour, imprisonment, and exile. During the last century they have been crystallised in the form of imprisonment, as being the most humane, although in reality it is the most illogical form, since it serves neither to intimidate the offender ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero


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