Assertion: whipping | /r/HasProperty | painful corporal punishment
Facets:
value: essentially
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Although a pillory, by its physical nature, could double as a whipping post to tie a criminal down for public flagellation (as used to be the case in many German sentences to staupenschlag ), the two as such are separate punishments: the pillory is a sentence to public humiliation, whipping is an essentially painful corporal punishment.