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Remonstrate  v. t.  (past & past part. remonstrated; pres. part. remonstrating)  To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate. (Obs.) "I will remonstrate to you the third door."



Remonstrate  v. i.  To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation. "It is proper business of a divine to state cases of conscience, and to remonstrate against any growing corruptions in practice, and especially in principles."
Synonyms: Expostulate, Remonstrate. These words are commonly interchangeable, the principal difference being that expostulate is now used especially to signify remonstrance by a superior or by one in authority. A son remonstrates against the harshness of a father; a father expostulates with his son on his waywardness. Subjects remonstrate with their rulers; sovereigns expostulate with the parliament or the people.






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"Remonstrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... remonstrate, to plead his innocence of any wrong-doing. Finding no sympathy by taking this attitude, his manner changed abruptly ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey

... to remonstrate with such a woman as this. I simply stated my own objection to her artfully ...
— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins

... arrived from l'Echelle, issuing orders in absolute contradiction of the plan that he had agreed to, when the council of war broke up. The orders were obeyed, but the generals again met, and sent off a messenger to l'Echelle to remonstrate against the attack in one mass, and a march by a single road, on a position that could be attacked by several routes; and to recommend that at least a diversion should be made, by a false attack. Westermann himself carried this remonstrance, but the commander-in-chief ...
— No Surrender! - A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee • G. A. Henty

... popularity on the decline, and the king engaged abroad in divers political designs full of onerousness or embarrassment, they considered the moment to have come, and, at the end of 1464, formed together an alliance "for to remonstrate with the king," says Commynes, "upon the bad order and injustice he kept up in his kingdom, considering themselves strong enough to force him if he would not mend his ways; and this war was called the common ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume III. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... beside herself with vexation, which was increased by Zell's convulsed laughter on the porch, but she stormed at the old plowman as vainly as a robin might remonstrate with a windmill. ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe


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