Lexicographical Neighbors of Flagellantism
Literary usage of Flagellantism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1919)
"Rousseau to him means exclusively that oscillating compound of sincerity, cynicism,
sadic flagellantism, and sentimentality which we both abhor and admire ..."
2. I Accuse! by Richard Grelling (1915)
"like St. Vitus's dance or flagellantism in the Middle Ages. As the Dervishes in
the East for hours at a time utter the same formulae of prayer and go ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The second outbreak of flagellantism originated in Germany in 1349. Its immediate
occasion was the terror inspired by the plague known as the Black Death, ..."
4. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
"Moll quotes a typical case of homosexuality in a woman afflicted with passive
flagellantism and ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"In the second outbreak of flagellantism about 1349, the outrages against public
decency were much more flagrant than at its first appearance. ..."
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