FLAGELLOMANIA NOUN enthusiasm for flogging, whipping, or being whipped - 1895 ETYMOLOGY from flagell- () + -o + -mania; from Latin flagellum (whip, scourge) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1895 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The recent spread of that familiar old neurosis, the flagellation mania, has emboldened certain school authorities to invite the London School Board to join in a deputation to the Home Secretary to procure a return to the flogging system. It did not occur to anyone at first that the present Board, with its sweeping Progressive majority, could give any quarter to this disgraceful proposal. But it appears that Flagellomania has been victorious by seven votes to five on the Industrial Schools Committee..." From: The Daily Chronicle February 24, 1895
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