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pillory
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synonyms: wooden parenthesis, ~stocks ???
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Definition:a wooden frame with holes for the head and wrists, used for punishment via public display and humilation---n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction —prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary.
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Win. Jenkins was darted through a small window in that part of the carriage next the horses, where she stuck like a bawd in the pillory, till she was released by the hand of Mr Bramble.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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“I couldna get him freed entirely. I got him off as light as could be, though; only an hour in the pillory and one ear nailed.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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In England, in years agone, it was a common practice to place in the pillory authors who presumed to write against the reigning monarch, or on political and religious subjects which were not in accord with the opinions of those in power.
William Andrews. Bygone Punishments (1899)
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after a trial that lasted six years Saltykóva was sentenced to death; this sentence, however, was commuted to exposure in the pillory and confinement for life in a nunnery.— A.M.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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There would be mention of the bishops in their lawn sleeves, the judges in their ermine robes, the pillory, the stocks, the treadmill, the cat o’ nine tails, the Lord Mayor’s Banquet and the practice of kissing the Pope’s toe.
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