[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flagellation \flag`ella"tion\, n. l. flagellatio: cf. f.
   flagellation.
   a beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. --garth.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

flagellation
     n : beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
         syn: whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing
see also:
whipping tanning flogging lashing 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

67 moby thesaurus words for "flagellation":
   albigensianism, catharism, day of atonement, franciscanism,
   sabbatarianism, trappism, waldensianism, yoga, yom kippur,
   abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism,
   austerity, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting,
   buffeting, caning, clubbing, cold purgatorial fires,
   corporal punishment, cowhiding, cudgeling, drubbing, eremitism,
   fasting, flailing, flogging, fustigation, hair shirt,
   horsewhipping, lacing, lashing, lustration, maceration,
   mendicantism, monachism, monasticism, mortification, penance,
   penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, pistol-whipping,
   purgation, purgatory, puritanism, rawhiding, repentance, rigor,
   sackcloth and ashes, scourging, self-denial, self-mortification,
   spanking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing,
   trouncing, truncheoning, voluntary poverty, whipping

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