flagellant

/flaj-uh-luhnt, fluh-jel-uhnt/US // ˈflædʒ ə lənt, fləˈdʒɛl ənt //UK // (ˈflædʒɪlənt, fləˈdʒɛlənt) //

鞭笞者,旗手,鞭挞者,鞭炮手

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person who flagellates or scourges himself or herself for religious discipline.
- : a person who derives sexual pleasure from whipping or being whipped by another person.
- : one of a medieval European sect of fanatics who practiced scourging in public.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : flagellating.
- : severely criticizing: a flagellant attack on the opposition party.

And with a flagellant's pleasure the patient nurses this fire of fever, till it flames up in a bright blaze.
She did not see in Clare's hopeless passion the joy of the flagellant, or the self-dramatization of a neurotic girl.
Yet no flagellant ever bent more meekly under his own blows than Charlotte did as she resigned herself to bearing that cross.
No flagellant of old ever trembled beneath the body lash as he under the spiritual punishment.
If it would have freed her from pain he would have hugged his own with the savage exultance of a flagellant.