scourge
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Is scourge a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.Examples: "He flogged him with a scourge."; "Yf they breake myne ordinaunces, and kepe not my commaundementes. I vil vyſet their offences with the rodde, and their ſynnes with ſcourges."; "My father layd vpon you a heauie yoke, vvhich I vvil make heauier: my father bette you vvith ſcourges, but I vvil beate you vvith ſcorpions."historical
2. (figurative)Examples: "And therfore the faithfull had neede of inuincible conſtancie and incredible pacience, that they may know them to be gods squorges, and the inſtrumentes of his wrath, […]"; "Againe not long after this euen ſhortly after the death of Alaricus came that Flagellum Dei that ſcourge of God into Italy, Attila King of the Hunnes, and ſpoyled the country vvith maruailous hoſtility in the time of the Emperour Martian."; "[I]f Attila equalled the hoſtile ravages of Tamerlane, either the Tartar or the Hun might deſerve the epithet of the Scourge of God."figuratively
3. (figurative)Examples: "Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere."; "Thou ominous and fearefull Ovvle of death, / Our Nations terror, and their bloody ſcourge, / The period of thy Tyranny approacheth, / On vs thou canſt not enter but by death: […]"; "[W]hat ſcourge for periury, / Can this darke monarchy afford falſe Clarence, […]"figuratively
verb (English)
1. (figurative)Examples: "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?"; "He cals vs rebels, traitors, and vvill ſcourge / VVith haughtie armes this hatefull name in vs."; "You ſhall with rods of iron ſcourge theſe treaſons."figurativelytransitive
2. (figurative)Examples: "And that the Remonſtrant cannot vvaſh his hands of all the cruelties exercis'd by the Prelats, is paſt doubting. They ſcourg'd the Confeſſors of the Goſpel, and he held the Scourgers garments."; "Thou hast, thyself, broken all laws, dissolved every tie; thou bruisest, scourgest, robbest this thy noble kingdom of England, and shall we not have at least the poor liberty to rail."figurativelytransitive
3. (figurative)Scotlandfigurativelytransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary