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单词 pillorying
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pilloryingn.

Brit. /ˈpɪl(ə)rɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɪləriɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pillory v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < pillory v. + -ing suffix1.
The action or an act of punishing a person in a pillory; (figurative) the action or an act of exposing a person to public abuse, ridicule, or defamation.
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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks
stockinga1535
pillorization1688
pillorying?1705
pillorizing1720
1653 J. Lilburne Just Def. 4 I stood firm to our true English liberty, as resolvedly persisted therein, enduring a most cruel whipping, pilloring, gagging, and barbarous imprisonment.]
?1705 E. Hickeringill Vindic. Char. Priest-craft 17 Cropping of Ears, Pillorying, Jayling.
1794 A. Bruce Reflections on Freedom of Writing 58 Did..the pillorying of Shebbeare..dispirit their party?
1842 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 247 The vengeance which he took on Fréron and Desfontaines was such, that scourging, branding, pillorying, would have been a trifle to it.
1896 F. C. Lowell Joan of Arc xxii. 352 They remembered only the terror of the day when she attacked the gate of St. Honoré, and the more recent pillorying of her wretched counterfeit.
1911 J. R. MacDonald Socialist Movement iv. 84 Dickens' pilloryings led to the removal of some of the blotches in the face of society.
1993 Bookseller Jan. 22 (BNC) 39 The pillorying of Anthony Burgess as ‘The Man Who Reviewed His Own Book’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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