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Webster 1913 Edition
Remonstrance
1.
The act of remonstrating
; as: (a)
A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration.
[Obs.]
You may marvel why I . . . would not rather
Make rash
Than let him be so lost.
Make rash
remonstrance
of my hidden powerThan let him be so lost.
Shakespeare
(b)
Earnest presentation of reason in opposition to something; protest; expostulation.
Webster 1828 Edition
Remonstrance
REMON'STRANCE
,Noun.
1.
Show; discovery. [Not in use.]2.
Expostulation; strong representation of reasons against a measure, either public or private, and when addressed to a public body, a prince or magistrate, it may be accompanied with a petition or supplication for the removal or prevention of some evil or inconvenience. A party aggrieved presents a remonstrance to the legislature.3.
Pressing suggestions in opposition to a measure or act; as the remonstrances of conscience or of justice.4.
Expostulatory counsel or advice; reproof.Definition 2024
remonstrance
remonstrance
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Noun
remonstrance (plural remonstrances)
- A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection.
- 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 52
- Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
- 2004, Perry Link, "China: A new postmortem on Tiananmen," Time, 15 March:
- In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake.
- 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 52
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