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Expostulation

noun
1.
The act of expressing earnest opposition or protest.  Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration.
2.
An exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof.





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"Expostulation" Quotes from Famous Books



... of her intentions, forbore any further expostulation, and quietly followed her to the drawing-room. But as the door was opened, she was struck with amazement upon finding that the apartment, which was spacious, lighted with brilliancy, and decorated with magnificence, was more than half filled with ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney
... want this man punished!" he suddenly broke out in fervent expostulation. "I have nothing against him. I don't believe he intended to do any wrong. And I hope ...
— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train
... was sure of unlimited credit with the Kellers, he opened Chesnel's letter gaily. He had expected four full pages, full of expostulation to the brim; he glanced down the sheet for the familiar words "prudence," "honor," "determination to do right," and the like, and saw something else instead which made his ...
— The Collection of Antiquities • Honore de Balzac
... Hambleton and my Sister Watch (his eldest daughter was ill). I get up before 2 in the Morning of the L(ecture) Day, and hearing an earnest expostulation of my daughter, I went down and finding her restless, call'd up my wife.... I put up this Note at the Old (First Church) and South, 'Prayers are desired for Hanah Sewall ...
— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday
... meant it, but the imputation was clear, and it stirred one fiery expostulation. "Oh, but he hadn't time before Mr. Stocks came after me," she began, and then feeling it ungracious towards that gentleman to make him share a possibility of heroism with another, she was silent. More, a lurking fear which had never ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan


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