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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



... unforced, without exaggeration or a trace of melodrama. His pose was easy, alert, erect. To these endowments of external mien was joined the gift and the glory of words. They were not sought, they came. Whether the task were reasoning or exposition or expostulation, the copious springs never failed. Nature had thus done much for him, but he superadded ungrudging labour. Later in life he proffered to a correspondent a set of suggestions on the art ...
— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley
... Truesdale, shrugging his shoulders, as he cast on Brower and his circle a look half of expostulation and half of embarrassment, "I'm not entitled to annoy your friends with any such filthy trifle as that. Besides, I don't claim it as any grievance of mine." He thought, privately, that his mother's disposition ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... letter to his sister Fanny of the same date, beginning merrily about the family expostulation on receiving a box of reports where curiosities had ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... neither of us would yield. At length, the doctor settled himself down into the bottom of the sleigh, and drew the buffalo-robes over him. After a final expostulation, accompanied with a threat to drive off, Jack imitated his example. McGinty, seeing this, proceeded to make himself comfortable in the same way. The poor horses had the worst time of it. The cold snow was up to their knees; and, as they stood there, they moved uneasily, tramping ...
— The Lady of the Ice - A Novel • James De Mille
... consoled himself after much additional expostulation with the reflection that if a woman is bent on making a fool of herself, the wisest man in the world is helpless to prevent her. He set himself at last to prepare the necessary papers which would put Mr. Horace Barker in possession of his cousin's ...
— The Law-Breakers and Other Stories • Robert Grant


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