self-flagellatory

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self-flagellatory

adjective more self-flagellatory · most self-flagellatory

Characterized by self-flagellation; extremely repentant. 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.
Self-sacrificing. 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, ...
Similar: self-denying, abstemious, otherish, selfless, self-abnegatory, self-flagellatory, self-sacrificing, unselfish

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@misc{self_flagellatory_2026,
  title = {self-flagellatory},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/self-flagellatory},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}