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  1. A religious person who uses a whip on him- or
  2. herself as a means of penance. Flagellation
  3. was practised in many religions from ancient
  4. times; notable outbreaks of this type of
  5. extremist devotion occurred in Christian
  6. Europe in the 11th-16th centuries.
  7.