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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pillory  \Pil"lo*ry\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Pilloried};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Pillorying}.]  [Cf.  F.  pilorier.] 
  1.  To  set  in  or  punish  with  the  pillory.  ``Hungering  for 
  Puritans  to  pillory.''  --Macaulay. 
 
  2.  Figuratively,  to  expose  to  public  scorn.  --Gladstone. 




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