noun
- plural of flogging; acts of beating someone with a whip or stick as punishment
Usage: often historical or in contexts of corporal punishment
Examples
- Public floggings were common punishments in colonial times.
- The ship’s captain ordered floggings for the mutinous sailors.
- Human rights groups condemned the use of floggings as judicial punishment.
- Historical records document numerous floggings in military courts.
- The prison abolished floggings in favor of other disciplinary measures.
- Floggings were considered brutal even by the standards of that era.