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Chide vs Pillory - What's the difference?

chide | pillory |

In transitive terms the difference between chide and pillory

is that chide is to admonish in blame; to reproach angrily while pillory is to criticize harshly.

As a noun pillory is

a framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.

chide

English

Verb

  • To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
    • 1591' ''And yet I was last '''chidden for being too slow.'' — Shakespeare, ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona , .
    1598' ''If the scorn of your bright eyne / Have power to raise such love in mine, / Alack, in me what strange effect / Would they work in mild aspect? / Whiles you '''chid me, I did love'' — Shakespeare, ''As You Like It , .
    {{quote-book
    , year=1920 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=Thuvia, Maiden of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Then she had not chidden' him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she ' chide him now, though she was promised to another. }}
  • (obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
    • 1611' ''And Jacob was wroth, and '''chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? — Genesis 31:36 KJV.
  • (ambitransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
  • * Shakespeare
    • As doth a rock against the chiding flood.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the sea that chides the banks of England

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    * English irregular verbs

    pillory

    English

    (wikipedia pillory)

    Noun

    (pillories)
  • A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To put in a pillory.
  • To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
  • To criticize harshly.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 24 , author=Aled Williams , title=Chelsea 4 - 1 Swansea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The breakthrough came through Torres who, pilloried for his miss against Manchester United a week earlier, scored his second goal of the season.}}