Flagellants is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 501 anagrams from letters in flagellants (aaefglllnst).
1555-65; Latin flagellant- (stem of flagellāns) whipping, present participle of flagellāre. See flagellum, -ant
Kadris, a set of Mohammedan dervishes who lacerate themselves with scourges, like the flagellants.
And the flagellants and the Penitenti—have even their ghosts departed?
The proceedings of the flagellants in all countries were very similar.
Every country had its wandering hordes of flagellants and penitents, its crusaders and its pilgrims.
In 1349 two hundred flagellants first entered Strasburg, where they were hospitably lodged by the citizens.
There were the flagellants to see, who whipped themselves until their bare backs were red.
The practice has a long history, but amounts to an American survival of the flagellants of Europe.
This practice soon became a regular craze and was taken up later by the Dominicans, the Franciscans, and the flagellants.
Among the outbreaks of this kind was that of the flagellants, which showed itself several times in various places.
"These are the Beating Friars, otherwise called the flagellants," quoth he.
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