Pillory vs Laud - What's the difference?
pillory | laud |
A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
To put in a pillory.
To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
To criticize harshly.
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or glorification.
* Shakespeare
* Tyndals
Hymn of praise.
(in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.
(intransitive) to praise, to glorify
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke I:
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.As a verb pillory
is to put in a pillory.As a proper noun laud is
.pillory
English
(wikipedia pillory)Noun
(pillories)Verb
(en-verb)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.}}
laud
English
Noun
(en noun)- Laud be to God.
- So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same.
Verb
(en verb)- And hys mought was opened immediatly, and hys tonge, and he spake lawdynge god.
