Crossword-Solution: PILLORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pillory | n. | A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. |
| Pillory | v. t. | To set in, or punish with, the pillory. |
| Pillory | v. t. | Figuratively, to expose to public scorn. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “PILLORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Framework for punishment – criticise harshly | 1 answer |
| a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck | 1 answer |
| Ridicule publicly | 1 answer |
| Lay open to public scorn. | 1 answer |
| Hold up to ridicule | 1 answer |
| Expose to public ridicule. | 1 answer |
| Expose to public derision | 1 answer |
| Deride publicly | 1 answer |
| Device used to expose offenders to public scorn. | 1 answer |
| Expose to ridicule | 2 answers |
| Expose to public scorn | 2 answers |
| Jougs | 5 answers |
| Juggs | 5 answers |
| jugum | 5 answers |
| JOGGS | 5 answers |
| PUNISHMENT, form of 15th-18th c.) | 6 answers |
| stocks | 9 answers |
| Gibbet | 28 answers |
| ill fame | 42 answers |
| Yoke | 43 answers |
| Denounce | 63 answers |
| Fasten | 80 answers |
| Ridicule | 81 answers |
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Sentences with PILLORY (5)
Lastly, in lieu of these shifting scenes, came back the rude market-place of the Puritan settlement, with all the townspeople assembled, and levelling their stern regards at Hester Prynne—yes, at herself—who stood on the scaffold of the pillory, an infant on her arm, and the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom.
The conviction, if it did not ease his conscience, at least offered him the relative relief of obscurity: he felt like an offender taken down from the pillory and thrust into the soothing darkness of a cell.
And meantime his look was not removed, but continued to play upon her like a battery of cannon constantly aimed, and now seemed to isolate her alone with him, and now seemed to uplift her, as on a pillory, before the congregation.
The numerous suicides and bankruptcies which they occasioned attracted the attention of the _Parlement_, who drew up regulations for their observance, and threatened those who violated them with the pillory and whipping.
For Hetty looked out from her secret misery towards the possibility of their ever knowing what had happened, as the sick and weary prisoner might think of the possible pillory.
Quotes with PILLORY (3)
Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the old man vehemently. "Not only are they devilishly cruel but they are not even common sense. They do not lesson the evil in the world, they increase it, by making those who handle these cruelties as wicked as those who suffer them. No, I'm wrong, more wicked, for there is always some expiation made in the endurance of suffering and none at all in the infliction of it.
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1949–2003).