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vapulation en · NOUN

Etymology

Latin vāpulāre (“to be flogged”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) The act of beating or whipping.
   • He all the time begs their Mercy, like an Offender at a Whipping-Post, and beseeches their forbearance; but the more importunate he seems for their favourable usage, the severer Vapulation they are to exercise upon him […]. 1698, Ned Ward, The London Spy, I.2:

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