Pillory vs Mock - What's the difference?
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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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An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
Mockery, the act of mocking.
* Bible, Proverbs xiv. 9
A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
To mimic, to simulate.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
* Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 27
* Gray
To tantalise, and disappoint (the hopes of).
* Bible, Judges xvi. 13
* 1597 , William Shakespeare, Henry IV , Part II, Act V, Scene III:
* 1603 , William Shakespeare, Othello , Act III, Scene III:
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost :
* Milton
* 1765 , Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespear's text , page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello):
* 1812 , The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature , page 190:
Imitation, not genuine; fake.
As nouns the difference between pillory and mock
is that pillory is a framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation while mock is an imitation, usually of lesser quality.As verbs the difference between pillory and mock
is that pillory is to put in a pillory while mock is to mimic, to simulate.As an adjective mock is
imitation, not genuine; fake.pillory
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(wikipedia pillory)Noun
(pillories)Verb
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mock
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- (Crashaw)
- Fools make a mock at sin.
- He got a B in his History mock , but improved to an A in the exam.
Verb
(en verb)- To see the life as lively mocked' as ever / Still sleep ' mocked death.
- Mocking marriage with a dame of France.
- Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.
- Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
- Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.
- And with his spirit sadly I survive, / to mock the expectations of the world; / to frustrate prophecies, and to raze out / rotten opinion
- "It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."
- Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?
- He will not / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
- ‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.
- The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.