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English Dictionary: flagellant by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flagellant
n
  1. a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification
  2. a person who whips himself as a religious penance
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Flagellant \Flag"el*lant\, n. [L. flagellans, p. p. of
      flagellare: cf.F. flagellant. See {Flagellate}.] (Eccl.
      Hist.)
      One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the
      13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was
      of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called
      also {disciplinant}.
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