scourge
scourge is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment. Sharp scourges of adversity. Chaucer. What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence Shak.
- 2.To whip severely; to lash. is it lawful for you to scourge a . . . Roman Acts xxii.
- 3.2. To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Heb. xii.
- 4.3. To harass or afflict severely. To scourge and impoverish the people. Brougham.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is to whip severely; to lash. is it lawful for you to scourge a . . . Roman Acts xxii called?
- What is 2. To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Heb. xii called?
- What is 3. To harass or afflict severely. To scourge and impoverish the people. Brougham called?
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