Associations to the word «Flagellant»

Wiktionary

FLAGELLANT, noun. A person who whips them self or others either as part of a religious penance or for sexual gratification.

Dictionary definition

FLAGELLANT, noun. A person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification.
FLAGELLANT, noun. A person who whips himself as a religious penance.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin