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scourging
/ˈskɝdʒɪŋ/
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What does scourging mean?
verb
- present participle and gerund of scourge
noun
- A beating with a scourge; a flogging.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈskɝdʒɪŋ/
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One of the least terrible of these punishments, and perhaps the most common of all, was that of scourging demons out of the body of a lunatic.
“This much scourging, then, it is for me.”
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The night when the Capitol had nearly been destroyed was annually celebrated by the cruel scourging of a dog in the principal public places, even to the death of the animal.
They are united into a separate Christian fraternity, and make their processions through the towns and villages with great noise and tumult, scourging themselves till they draw blood, and wounding themselves with knives.
He had given Demby but few stripes, when, to get rid of the scourging, he ran and plunged himself into a creek, and stood there at the depth of his shoulders, refusing to come out.