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Expostulation

noun

The act of expressing earnest opposition or protest. Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration.

An exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof.

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"Expostulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... beside the open door, I lifted my head proudly, determined that neither should perceive how deeply I felt the humiliation of my position. As I thus passed them, my eyes fixed upon the shining road ahead, my ears caught a word or two of indignant expostulation from ...

— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish

... if they might all be thrown into the ditch. Then mademoiselle, who was always rather nervous about driving, broke into shrill screams, with Marie joining in at intervals—Gilpin's flight was nothing to it—and the cart jolted and swayed so that calm expostulation was impossible. ...

— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie

... Esq. July 5.-Expostulation on his love of visionary projects. Mr. M'untz. Visit to Chaffont. Bulstrode. Latimers. First visit to ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... out into maniacal movements of wrath, invoking some absent person, praying, beseeching, menacing some air-wove phantom; sometimes he slunk into solitary corners, muttering to himself, and with gestures sorrowfully significant, or with tones and fragments of expostulation that moved the most callous to compassion. Still he turned a deaf ear to the only practical counsel that had a chance for reaching his ears. Like a bird under the fascination of a rattlesnake, he would not summon up the energies ...

— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.

... Everybody was smoking cigars, everybody was happily conscious of a warm glow at the pit of the stomach, everybody was firmly convinced that Silver Jack was the best fellow on earth. Morgan could do nothing. An attempt to eject Silver Jack, an expostulation even, would, he knew, lose him his entire crew. The men, their heads whirling with the anticipated delights of a spree, would indignantly champion their new friend. Morgan retired grimly to the "office." There, the ...

— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White

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