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Definition of Pillorying
1. pillory [v] - See also: pillory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pillorying
Literary usage of Pillorying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"... as it flies and catching the manners living as they rise, and pillorying the
madness of the moment. Were George Cruikshank called upon, for instance, ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"... for the undeveloped state of party government, for Defoe's pecuniary embarrassments
and his social ostracism after the pillorying, finds it possible to ..."
3. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"The world had forgotten him since his pillorying. He now had the effrontery to
write to the Speaker, begging to be heard at the bar and promising much ..."
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