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Flagellant
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flagellant
[flaj′ələnt]
a person who receives sexual gratification from the practice of flagellation.
Flagellant
A person who willingly subjects himself to whipping or scourging, as a religious penitent, or as a sexual masochist
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The religious do not make a strong showing in the compromise settlements either as arbiters--only one case called for a friar, either a Franciscan or Dominican, to settle their dispute over property outside the city--or as parties to a dispute, with the exception of the nuns of Santa Caterina and a laudesi confraternity who were represented by notaries.
Instruments of concord: making peace and settling disputes through a ... by Wray, Shona Kelly / Journal of Social History
In the same period in many parts of Italy also laudesi (praising) confraternities, which focused their religious life on praying and singing, appeared.
Women in the fourteenth-century Venetian scuole * by Ziemann, Antje / Renaissance Quarterly
11) Also celebrating this feast were two local confraternities, the Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi, and the laudesi Compagnia di San Zanobi -- the latter playing an important role in preparing for the celebrations that took place on this holy day.
A French king and a magic ring: the Girolami and a relic of St. ... by Cornelison, Sally J. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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