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Definition of Pilloried
1. pillory [v] - See also: pillory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilloried
Literary usage of Pilloried
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Union--disunion--reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 by Samuel Sullivan Cox (1886)
"NORTHERN APPREHENSIONS — WAR RESULTS SAFE — NEGRO ENFRANCHISEMENT — THE BALLOT
INEVITABLE — PARTISANSHIP pilloried —THE CONSTITUTION AS THE PALLADIUM OF THE ..."
2. Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 by Samuel Sullivan Cox (1885)
"... WAR RESULTS SAFE —NEGRO ENFRANCHISEMENT — THE BALLOT INEVITABLE - PARTISANSHIP
pilloried —THE CONSTITUTION AS THE PALLADIUM OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH. ..."
3. Universal Biography: Containing a Copious Account, Critical and Historical ...by John Lemprière by John Lemprière (1810)
"... Letter to the People of England, exposed him to the resentment of government,
and he was pilloried. On the accession of George HI. he obtained a pension ..."
4. A Dictionary of Biography: Comprising the Most Eminent Characters of All by Richard Alfred Davenport (1839)
"In 1685 he Was treated ¡till more severely; being sentenced to pay five hundred
marks, be thrice pilloried, and be whipped from Newgate to Tyburn, ..."
5. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
"Plymouth's patriotism burned fiercely when Pilgrim descendants pilloried Toryism
in the following resolution: . . . That a Committee of Inspection be chose ..."
6. Memoir of the Centennial Celebration of Burgoyne's Surrender: Held at by William Leete Stone (1878)
"There he will stand, pilloried before the gaze of centuries, ten thousand times
more than if a figure of bronze met the eye with the word " traitor ..."
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