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  • noun A penchant for whipping, or being whipped.

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Examples

  • Wholesome people would not argue about the taste of such nastinesses: they would spit them out; but we are tainted with flagellomania from our childhood.

    Treatise on Parents and Children George Bernard Shaw 1903

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