The Only Use of
remonstrate
in
The Scarlet Letter
- She saw her father's face, with its bold brow, and reverend white beard that flowed over the old-fashioned Elizabethan ruff; her mother's, too, with the look of heedful and anxious love which it always wore in her remembrance, and which, even since her death, had so often laid the impediment of a gentle remonstrance in her daughter's pathway.
Chpt 2remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
Definition:
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(remonstrate) argue, complain, or criticize