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- noun Plural form of
whipping .
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Examples
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Many did tell of whippings, sadistic overseers, loved ones being sold away, and of wishing to be free.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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During a two-year period in the early 1840s, there were, according to which historian you believe, either 0.7 or 1.03 whippings per slave per year.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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After all the talk about amputating ears and public whippings, the Code of Hammurabi pauses to consider the plight of the intern.
Lapham's Quarterly: Of Apprentices and Interns Lapham's Quarterly 2011
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I had spent a lot of time getting to understand his family and had found out, that for some reason, among the seven siblings, he had been continuously singled out for physical abuse from his father -- he had scars on his back from whippings, and deep scars in his heart as well.
Andrea Lyon: A Broader Conversation on Education Andrea Lyon 2010
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We might have to go back to whippings, etc. because LWOP is an 8th Amendment violation!
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After all the talk about amputating ears and public whippings, the Code of Hammurabi pauses to consider the plight of the intern.
Lapham's Quarterly: Of Apprentices and Interns Lapham's Quarterly 2011
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I had spent a lot of time getting to understand his family and had found out, that for some reason, among the seven siblings, he had been continuously singled out for physical abuse from his father -- he had scars on his back from whippings, and deep scars in his heart as well.
Andrea Lyon: A Broader Conversation on Education Andrea Lyon 2010
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Nardinelli, a neoclassical economist, has been accused of suggesting that children essentially volunteered to be exploited, submitting, for example, to whippings out of a kind of entrepreneurial initiative.
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"My mother said she was tired of seeing me get whippings," he said.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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They would have to stage re-enactments of slave sales, slave whippings, slave castrations, slave lynchings, and severing of the achillies tendon of re-captured escaped slaves to be fully authentic.
Virginia governor declares April as Confederate History Month 2010
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