Definitionn. a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck
Last update: September 5, 2015
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Defoe was tried, found guilty of seditious libel, and sentenced to be fined, to stand three days in the pillory, and to be imprisoned. [noun]
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During the colonial period, thieves were often locked in a pillory in the town square where they would suffer public humiliation. [noun]
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As they could not convict me of the crime, and had yet determined on my ruin, I was sentenced to two days' and nights' exposure on the pillory. [noun]
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"And you, Bartja," cried Darius, the Persian king's cousin, "could you have borne to stand at the pillory." [Please select]
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Will you sit smiling to see your sisters in the pillory of satire. [Please select]
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(Reuben J Dodd, blackbearded iscariot, bad shepherd, bearing on his shoulders the drowned corpse of his son, approaches the pillory.) [Please select]
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(Bloom with asses' ears seats himself in the pillory with crossed arms, his feet protruding.) [Please select]
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Crowds flocked to cheer him in the pillory; and seeing that Defoe was making popularity out of persecution, his enemies bundled him off to Newgate prison. [Please select]
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It was in reference to this incident that Pope, whose Catholic rearing made him detest the abettor of the Revolution and the champion of William of Orange, wrote in the Dunciad- "Earless on high stands unabash'd Defoe" - though he knew that the sentence to the pillory had long ceased to entail the loss of ears. [Please select]
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She was indicted for blasphemy, fined, and sentenced to stand in the pillory. [Please select]
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Punished with the pillory and required to renounce such practices for the future. [Please select]
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