scourge
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maanvaiva, vitsaus
piiskata
kauhistus
piiska
ruoskia
runnella
scourge englanniksi
(senseid) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
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(RQ:Coverdale Bible)
(RQ:Douay Bible)
(RQ:Homer Chapman Odysseys)
(RQ:Thomson Winter)|footer=A figurative use.
(RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)
(quote-book) These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.
A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
(RQ:Marlorat Golding Revelation)
(RQ:Coryat Crudities)|lines=14–18|page=162|passage=Againe not long after this euen ſhortly after the death of ''I|Alaricus'' came that ''Flagellum Dei'' that ſcourge of God into Italy, ''(w)'' King of the Hunnes, and ſpoyled the country vvith maruailous hoſtility in the time of the Emperour ''Martian''.
(RQ:Gibbon Roman Empire) to the Empire of the East|page=368|passage=If (w) equalled the hoſtile ravages of Tamerlane, either the Tartar or the Hun might deſerve the epithet of the (small).
(RQ:Shelley Cenci)
(RQ:Lawrence Porcupine), the Scourge of God, who helped to scourge the Roman world out of existence, was great with power. He was the scourge of ''God''; not the scourge of the League of Nations, hired and paid in cash.
A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-1)
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3 Q1)
(RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes)
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
(RQ:Thomson Winter) (..) vvhoſe genius, riſing ſtrong, / Shook off the load of young debauch; abroad / The ſcourge of ''Perſian'' pride, at home the friend / Of every vvorth and every ſplendid art; (..)
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein)
(RQ:Shelley Poetical Works) I speak it not / As loving parliaments, which, as they have been / In the right hand of bold bad mighty kings / The scourges of the bleeding Church, I hate.
(RQ:Ouida In Maremma)
(RQ:Economist): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge ''(noun (senseno))'' or whip; to flog, to whip.
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(RQ:Defoe New Voyage) I cauſed him to be brought to the Geers, vvith a Halter about his Neck, and be ſoundly vvhipp'd; and indeed our People did ſcourge him ſeverely from Head to Foot; (..)
(RQ:Shelley Poetical Works)
(RQ:Thoreau Yankee)
(RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Pausanias)
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To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Landor Count Julian)
(quote-book) Godly Prayers for Divers Purposes.|editor=Joseph Ketley|title=The Two Liturgies, A.D. 1549, and A.D. 1552: With Other Documents Set Forth by Authority in the Reign of King (w).(nb...)|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire|publisher=(...) University Press|University Press|year=1553|year_published=1844|page=474|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mdq9S5CXzawC&pg=PA474|oclc=1113904307|passage=''For a Patient and Thankful Heart in Sickness.'' Whom thou lovest, O Lord, him dost thou chasten, yea, every son that thou receivest, thou scourgest, and in so doing thou offerest thyself unto him, as a father unto his son. For what son is whom the father chasteneth not?
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 Q1)
(RQ:Dekker Dramatic Works)
(RQ:Donne Works) as long as his love lasts, he corrects us, and as long as he corrects us, he loves us.
(RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi)
(quote-book)|translator=Bouverie Pusey|Edward Bouverie Pusey|chapter=The Third Book|title=(Augustine)|The Confessions of S. Augustine.(nb...)|series=of the Fathers|Library of the Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church,(nb...)|seriesvolume=I|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher=Henry Parker (writer)|John Henry Parker; London: (publishers)|J. G. F. and J. Rivington|year=1840|section=paragraph III.5|page=31|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=eIzYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA31|oclc=63237831|passage=Upon how grievous iniquities consumed I myself, pursuing a sacrilegious curiosity, that having forsaken Thee, it might bring me to the treacherous abyss, and the beguiling service of devils, to whom I sacrific ed my evil actions, and in all these things thou didst scourge me! I dared even, while Thy solemnities were celebrated within the walls of Thy Church, to desire, and to compass a business, deserving death for its fruits, for which Thou scourgedst me with grievous punishments, (..)
(RQ:Hardy Ethelberta)
(quote-book)|location=St. Louis, Mo.|publisher=The R. P. Studley Company,(nb...)|year=1877|lines=453–454|page=19|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=0UVbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA19|oclc=20739436|passage=Once thou verily hearkened unto my prayer aforetime, / Honoring me, and severely scourgedst the host of the Grecians!
To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
(RQ:Milton Smectymnuus)
(quote-journal)
Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).