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What is the noun for flagellation?

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flagellation
  1. A beating consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. lashing, whipping, flogging, beating, thrashing, flailing, flaying, scourging, belting, caning, strapping, welting, birching, horsewhipping, switching, tanning, punishment, spanking, hiding, pasting, leathering, birch, cane, trouncing, drubbing, bashing, lathering, pounding, bullwhipping, belt, strap, walloping, whopping, going-over, pummeling, corporal punishment, paddling, switch, scourge, lash, the strap, hammering, thumping, slapping, clobbering, licking, battering, mauling, pummelling, smacking … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Like a zealot who demands a public flagellation to expiate his sin, Martin's thirst for punishment grows until his mental health is in doubt.”
      “Due to the flagellation constraint, the cost of reproduction increases with increasing colony size.”
      “When you've had your worst week of the campaign, to submit yourself to two or three more days of flagellation?”
flagellation
  1. (botany) The formation by plants of flagella, or their arrangement.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. lashing, whipping, flogging, beating, thrashing, flailing, flaying, scourging, belting, caning, strapping, welting, birching, horsewhipping, switching, tanning, punishment, spanking, hiding, pasting, leathering, birch, cane, trouncing, drubbing, bashing, lathering, pounding, bullwhipping, belt, strap, walloping, whopping, going-over, pummeling, corporal punishment, paddling, switch, scourge, lash, the strap, hammering, thumping, slapping, clobbering, licking, battering, mauling, pummelling, smacking … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Like a zealot who demands a public flagellation to expiate his sin, Martin's thirst for punishment grows until his mental health is in doubt.”
      “Due to the flagellation constraint, the cost of reproduction increases with increasing colony size.”
      “When you've had your worst week of the campaign, to submit yourself to two or three more days of flagellation?”
flagellator
  1. Someone who flagellates; a whipper.
flagellate
  1. (biology) Any organism that has flagella.
flagellations
  1. plural of flagellation
  2. Synonyms:
      3. lashings, whippings, floggings, beatings, thrashings, flailings, flayings, scourgings, beltings, canings, strappings, weltings, birchings, horsewhippings, switchings, tannings, punishments, spankings, hidings, pastings, leatherings, birches, canes, trouncings, drubbings, poundings, bashings, latherings, wallopings, bullwhippings, straps, belts, whoppings, goings-over, pummelings, switches, scourges, lashes, corporal punishments, paddlings, hammerings, thumpings, slappings, batterings, smackings, pummellings, clobberings, whackings, maulings, lickings … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I find that I do not admire Serra for his form of holiness, the endless flagellations and literal breast-beating, as well as not taking care of his health.”
flagellators
  1. plural of flagellator
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