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Protest   /prˈoʊtˌɛst/  /prətˈɛst/   Listen
Protest

noun
1.
A formal and solemn declaration of objection.  Synonym: protestation.  "The senator rose to register his protest" , "The many protestations did not stay the execution"
2.
The act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent.  Synonyms: dissent, objection.
3.
The act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval.  "A shower of protest was heard from the rear of the hall"
verb
(past & past part. protested; pres. part. protesting)
1.
Utter words of protest.
2.
Express opposition through action or words.  Synonyms: dissent, resist.
3.
Affirm or avow formally or solemnly.



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"Protest" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the help of a hatchet, and we proceeded; but so much time had been lost night overtook us twelve miles from Denver. We tried at two taverns, which were full of teamsters, and we were obliged to diverge three miles down Bear's Creek Canon to the house of Strauss. The good woman, after a mild protest, admitted us and gave us a supper of venison, with good beds. Strauss has a fine ranch along the creek, where he raises forty bushels of wheat to the acre, and his wife milks thirty-six cows and makes two ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 • Various
... material age, and that a material age is an irreligious age. I have been pained lately to see this assumption repeated in certain influential quarters for which I have a high respect, and desire to have a higher. I am afraid that by dint of constantly being reiterated, and reiterated without protest, this assumption— which I take leave altogether to deny—may be accepted by the more unthinking part of the public as unquestionably true; just as caricaturists and painters, professedly making a portrait of some public man, which was not in the least ...
— Speeches: Literary and Social • Charles Dickens
... who were assembled at the house of one of their number in pursuance of an agreement made on the previous day, gained sufficient courage to adopt a protest declaring that in spite of the Ordinances they were still the legal representatives of the nation. They moreover sent a deputation to Marmont, begging him to put a stop to the fighting, and offering ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... vitality which evil things seem always to possess, and the woman felt helpless against it; so utterly, so completely helpless that it was useless to protest by any word or gesture. She could have gotten up and explained the true motive behind this man's speech; she could have repeated the dialogue in his office; she could have asserted his unspeakable treachery; but she saw with an unerring instinct that against the skill of the man her effort would ...
— The Sleuth of St. James's Square • Melville Davisson Post
... interjection to—'Oh fie!' The remarks of Miss, ocular and oral, were very pointed, and it must be owned that she was a great master of the subject. Whenever the tone of libertine gallantry occurred, she was ready with—'There! That's you! There! There you are again! Well, I protest! Was any thing ever so like? That ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft


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