flagellant
noun
- practitioners of an extreme form of self-mortification
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: From Latin flagellāns, present participle of flagellāre (“to whip”).
- Given to flagellation.
“If we turn from these abortions of tragedy to the metrical farces which may fairly be said to contain the germ or embryo of English comedy (a form of dramatic art which certainly owes nothing to the father of our tragic stage), we find far more of hope and promise in the broad free sketches of the flagellant head master of Eton and the bibulous Bishop of Bath and Wells; […]”
“Her heart answered. And that heart also was arraigned: and the heart’s fleshly habitation acting on it besides: so flagellant of herself was she: covertly, however, and as the chaste among women can consent to let our animal face them.”
noun
Etymology: From Latin flagellāns, present participle of flagellāre (“to whip”).
- a person who whips themselves or others either as part of a religious penance or for sexual gratification.