“You could become a flagellant in some obscure religious sect.”

“He had given up a high position at the papal court to lead the life of a flagellant and barefooted friar.”

“In the village Shikalovo lived two dressmakers, sisters, belonging to the flagellant sect.”

“Disparaging commentary about one's country of birth unavoidably causes some uneasiness in a reader, since it is vaguely suggestive of indulgence in flagellantism.”

“As much as a pound of coagulated blood was noted to have been shed by individual flagellants during these paschal ceremonies.”

“In mid-1349, Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull denouncing the flagellants as a heretical movement.”

“There were the flagellants to see, who whipped themselves until their bare backs were red.”