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flagellant
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Definition:one who subjects themselves or others to flogging for religous or sexual gratification
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In the village Shikalovo lived two dressmakers, sisters, belonging to the Flagellant sect. The new clothes for the wedding were ordered from them, and they often came to try them on, and stayed a long while drinking tea.
Anton Chekhov. The Witch and other stories .
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I have read these Illusions perdues of which you are telling us, Baron, flagellating myself to attain to the fervour of an initiate,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 4]
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