Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Flogging; chastisement.
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Examples
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The constables have delivered her over to me; and she shall have whipping-cheer enough, I warrant her: there hath been a man or two lately killed about her.
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The constables have delivered her over to me, and she shall have whipping-cheer enough, I warrant her: there hath been a man or two lately killed about her.
Act V. Scene IV. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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The constables have delivered her over to me: and she shall have whipping-cheer enough I warrant her: there hath been a man or two lately killed about her.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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As he went he saw in the streets sad tokens of the lord's cruel justice, as handless men, fettered, dragging themselves about, and folk hung up before chapmen's booths, and whipping-cheer, and the pillar, and such like.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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Hell is the place where whipping-cheer abounds, II.
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632
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The constables have delivered her over to me; and she shall have whipping-cheer enough, I warrant her: there hath been a man or two lately killed about her.
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