Definitions for flagellant

flagellant flag·el·lant

Spelling: [flaj-uh-luh nt, fluh-j
IPA: /ˈflædʒ ə lənt, fləˈdʒɛl ənt/

Flagellant is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in flagellant (aaefglllnt).

Definitions for flagellant

noun

  1. a person who flagellates or scourges himself or herself for religious discipline.
  2. a person who derives sexual pleasure from whipping or being whipped by another person.
  3. (often initial capital letter) one of a medieval European sect of fanatics who practiced scourging in public.

adjective

  1. flagellating.
  2. severely criticizing:

Origin of flagellant

1555-65; Latin flagellant- (stem of flagellāns) whipping, present participle of flagellāre. See flagellum, -ant

Examples for flagellant

We even hear of flagellant monks and persons vowed to total abstinence among the precursors of Islam.

To this religious lyric the flagellant frenzy and the subsequent formation of Companies of Laudesi gave decisive impulse.

The big drummer of the Company stepped to the front; he was the flagellant.

She did not see in Clare's hopeless passion the joy of the flagellant, or the self-dramatization of a neurotic girl.

If I was a flagellant now, I would don hairshirt and up flail.

"Vainglory is a sleeveless errand," murmured the spirit of the flagellant.

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

And with a flagellant's pleasure the patient nurses this fire of fever, till it flames up in a bright blaze.

If it would have freed her from pain he would have hugged his own with the savage exultance of a flagellant.

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

Word Value for flagellant
Scrable

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Words with friends

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