fustigation

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.

   “Slighter palm of martyrdom, however, shall not be denied: martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Any kind of beating or flagellation.

   “Frenzied scenes of fustigations appear in his Historie de Juliette, published in six volumes in 1797.”

3. (broadly, countable, uncountable)a harsh verbal assault