"self-flagellatory" meaning in English

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      "form": "most self-flagellatory",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2005, Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East, page 386:",
          "text": "In this sense, the currently fashionable self-flagellatory school of history is, at the very least, as arrogant and self-centered as the more traditional kind of self-serving history.",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, The New Left: Legacy and Continuity, page 15:",
          "text": "There is often a muted mea culpa in these semi-autobiographical musings, a self-flagellatory tone that immediately relieves the reader of any suspicions of romanticism or nostalgia about a bygone age and a lost youth.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Alison Baverstock, The Naked Author - A Guide to Self-publishing:",
          "text": "I spent a good deal of time on it, wrote her a full response and delivered it back – and then heard nothing more for a few weeks, until I had a self-flagellatory letter from her which concentrated entirely on my negative points rather than my positives.",
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        "Characterized by self-flagellation; extremely repentant."
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          "repentant",
          "repentant"
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          "ref": "1993, Franz Karl Stanzel, Martin Löschnigg, Intimate enemies, page 412:",
          "text": "In war-time, self-sacrifice would be the obvious appropriate antidote to this depression, and some such mechanism is clearly at work in, for example, Vera Brittain's self-flagellatory dedication to her voluntary nursing, ...",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Andrew Holmes, Pains in the Office: 50 People You Absolutely, Definitely Must Avoid at Work!:",
          "text": "Martyrs are desperate to demonstrate their self-flagellatory capabilities in the hope that someone out there actually cares.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Gillian Bentley, Ruth Mace, Substitute Parents, page 182:",
          "text": "There is no point, except perhaps a self-flagellatory, religious one, in self-denial, and in a consumer culture, even modest consumption is an almost impossible stance.",
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        "Self-sacrificing."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "self-denying"
        },
        {
          "word": "self-abnegatory"
        }
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  "word": "self-flagellatory"
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      "form": "more self-flagellatory",
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          "ref": "2005, Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East, page 386:",
          "text": "In this sense, the currently fashionable self-flagellatory school of history is, at the very least, as arrogant and self-centered as the more traditional kind of self-serving history.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, The New Left: Legacy and Continuity, page 15:",
          "text": "There is often a muted mea culpa in these semi-autobiographical musings, a self-flagellatory tone that immediately relieves the reader of any suspicions of romanticism or nostalgia about a bygone age and a lost youth.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Alison Baverstock, The Naked Author - A Guide to Self-publishing:",
          "text": "I spent a good deal of time on it, wrote her a full response and delivered it back – and then heard nothing more for a few weeks, until I had a self-flagellatory letter from her which concentrated entirely on my negative points rather than my positives.",
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        "Characterized by self-flagellation; extremely repentant."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1993, Franz Karl Stanzel, Martin Löschnigg, Intimate enemies, page 412:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Andrew Holmes, Pains in the Office: 50 People You Absolutely, Definitely Must Avoid at Work!:",
          "text": "Martyrs are desperate to demonstrate their self-flagellatory capabilities in the hope that someone out there actually cares.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Gillian Bentley, Ruth Mace, Substitute Parents, page 182:",
          "text": "There is no point, except perhaps a self-flagellatory, religious one, in self-denial, and in a consumer culture, even modest consumption is an almost impossible stance.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Self-sacrificing."
      ],
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          "word": "self-abnegatory"
        }
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  "word": "self-flagellatory"
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