Noun
a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked
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In the article, “No Place for Self-Pitty, No Room for Fear, the author, Toni Morrison states, “I felt foolish the rest of the morning, especially when I recalled the artists who had done their work in gulags, prison cells, hospital beds; who did their work while hounded, exiled, reviled, pilloried. And those who were executed.”
The author, Toni Morrison used the word PILLORIED by describing how brutal the conditions were for the artist. They had to create their work through times of hardship, and she wanted other people to know that.
