flagellation

flagellation
    n 1: beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation
    2: beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
       [syn: {whipping}, {tanning}, {flogging}, {lashing},
       {flagellation}]
    

Flagellation \Flag`el*la"tion\, n. [L. flagellatio: cf. F.
   flagellation.]
   A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. --Garth.
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67 Moby Thesaurus words for "flagellation":
      Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism,
      Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur,
      abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism,
      austerity, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting,
      buffeting, caning, clubbing, cold purgatorial fires,
      corporal punishment, cowhiding, cudgeling, drubbing, eremitism,
      fasting, flailing, flogging, fustigation, hair shirt,
      horsewhipping, lacing, lashing, lustration, maceration,
      mendicantism, monachism, monasticism, mortification, penance,
      penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, pistol-whipping,
      purgation, purgatory, puritanism, rawhiding, repentance, rigor,
      sackcloth and ashes, scourging, self-denial, self-mortification,
      spanking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing,
      trouncing, truncheoning, voluntary poverty, whipping