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How to use flagellant in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word flagellant? Here are some examples.

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You could become a flagellant in some obscure religious sect.
Adopted first in central and northern Italy, the movement developed into flagellant brotherhoods comprising laypersons as well as clergy and spread from Italy into Germany and the Low Countries in the mid-13th century.
Among these were the Crusades and the Franciscan and flagellant movements.
Dujovne's research cannot account for the transformation of Eva Peron from a pushy, selfish starlet to a flagellant taking on the suffering of an entire nation.
Pinched and idly gestured toward a plinthTwo centuries of customers have careworn          To a shallow trough not quite my length,                    I'm forced to burrowInto a pose much more flagellant than faun.
Examples from Classical Literature
If it would have freed her from pain he would have hugged his own with the savage exultance of a flagellant.
He had given up a high position at the papal court to lead the life of a flagellant and barefooted friar.
In the village Shikalovo lived two dressmakers, sisters, belonging to the flagellant sect.
To this religious lyric the flagellant frenzy and the subsequent formation of Companies of Laudesi gave decisive impulse.
She did not see in Clare's hopeless passion the joy of the flagellant, or the self-dramatization of a neurotic girl.
If I was a flagellant now, I would don hairshirt and up flail.
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