To this religious lyric the Flagellant frenzy (1260) and the subsequent formation of Companies of Laudesi gave decisive impulse.
Especially on Good Friday they vied with one another in getting up their flagellantprocessions on the most magnificent scale.
From a sermon preached before Clement VI, descanting upon the seriousness and extent of the attraction of the Flagellant mania for the ignorant crowd.
Of Aglaia it was told that in her youth she used to attend the Flagellant meetings in Vedenyapino, and that she was still a Flagellant in secret, and that was why she wore a white kerchief.
In 1389 the leader of a flagellant band in Italy called the bianchi was burned by order of the pope, and his following dispersed.
The difference is connected with the fact that the active flagellant is usually a more virile and normal person than the exhibitionist.
He had given up a high position at the papal court to lead the life of a flagellant and barefooted friar.
Portugal was the only refuge on the Pyrenean peninsula from the proselytizing rage of the flagellant preacher, and many Spanish Jews who had the means of escaping fled thither.
Known locally as moradas, they serve as meeting houses for members of a flagellant brotherhood, the penitentes.
Dominguez thus documented flagellant practices and tinieblas services at Abiquiu and his approval, as an official Church representative, of these activities.
He turned on himself with savage hatred, and in books, bearing the mark of the flagellant and reflecting the agony of a soul in torment, he pointed to his sins and his stripes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flagellant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abstainer; anchorite; ascetic; austere; dervish; fakir; hermit; mendicant; puritanical
