flagellation

The flagellation could only be used for riots or in severe cases.

This is better than flagellation because it can be done in public, without attracting notice.

The followers were noted for including public flagellation in their rituals.

In a back room, they put it next to the unframed "Flagellation."

The flagellation is done in processions or inside a mosque.

Economic flagellation to keep us warm in the cold winter of austerity.

There have been cases of flagellation in prisons and they were confirmed by the authorities.

A great deal of screen time is taken up with the flagellation of Jesus.

I doubt that I could get very deep into flagellation, anyway.

Flagellation was a common penalty for crimes such as theft and fighting.

Everybody else head for the staging area at the Church of the Flagellation.

They wanted her sufferings to include even more than bondage and flagellation.

Aspiring to devotion, they began to practice mutual flagellation in secret.

A collection of Victorian stories and verse about erotic flagellation.

It provided different kinds of punishment, such as death penalty, flagellation etc.

Suddenly you feel uplifted, as if there may be a point after all to the flagellation endured in this city.

The tendrils represent the whips used in the flagellation of Christ.

Flagellation probably originated in the Near East but then spread throughout the ancient world.

With a return ticket courage becomes an intellectual exercise, like a monk's flagellation.

The theme of the work is flagellation by dominant women in positions of authority.

Another just limits the penalty to public flagellation.

Fire walking and flagellation may also be practiced.

The punishment was torture, usually flagellation, followed by execution.

Thus, the plague aided in institutionalizing flagellation as part of personal devotion to God.

Flagellation was also rumored, possibly due to the similarity of their name to the word for "whip".