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Definition of Flagellant

Flagellant
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.

Meaning of Flagellant from wikipedia

- Flagellants are practitioners of a form of mortification of the flesh by whipping their skin with various instruments of penance. Many Christian confraternities...
- discipline. It is often used as a form of penance and is intended to allow the flagellant to share in the sufferings of Jesus, bringing his or her focus to God...
- Central Italian flagellant confraternities evolved and emerged from Central Italian confraternities that originated in the tenth century. The members of...
- medieval music, the Geisslerlieder, or Flagellant songs, were the songs of the wandering bands of flagellants, who overspread Europe during two periods...
- towards themselves as they repent, but instead to God. Historically, the flagellants are the origin of the current traditions, as they flogged themselves...
- Bedroom 1797 Juliette 1828 The Lustful Turk 1830 Exhibition of Female Flagellants 1866 The Romance of Chasti****t 1870 Venus in Furs 1873 The Romance...
- A Procession of Flagellants (Procesión de disciplinantes, or Procesión de flagelantes) is an oil-on-panel painting produced by Francisco de Goya between...
- Exhibition of Female Flagellants is an 1830 **** novel published by George Cannon in London and attributed, probably falsely[citation needed]...
- active Penitent bands, groups in Methodism that meet to confess sins Flagellant Confraternities (Central Italy) Saint-Jérôme Church in Toulouse Thompson...
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