(n.) A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.

Albigensianism Catharism Day of Atonement Franciscanism Sabbatarianism Trappism Waldensianism Yoga Yom Kippur abstinence anchoritic monasticism anchoritism asceticism austerity bastinado basting battery beating belting buffeting caning clubbing cold purgatorial fires corporal punishment cowhiding cudgeling drubbing eremitism fasting flailing flogging fustigation hair shirt horsewhipping lacing lashing lustration maceration mendicantism monachism monasticism mortification penance penitence penitential act penitential exercise pistol-whipping purgation purgatory puritanism rawhiding repentance rigor sackcloth and ashes scourging self-denial self-mortification spanking strapping stripes swingeing switching thrashing trouncing truncheoning voluntary poverty whipping