All 3 Uses of
remonstrate
in
Jane Eyre
- Miss Temple seemed to remonstrate.†
Chpt 7 *
- I was about mechanically to obey him, without further remonstrance; but as he helped me into the carriage, he looked at my face.†
Chpt 24
- …received from her a turn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile — when I perceived that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the continued outbreaks of her violent and unreasonable temper, or the vexations of her absurd, contradictory, exacting orders — even then I restrained myself: I eschewed upbraiding, I curtailed remonstrance; I tried to devour my repentance and disgust in secret; I repressed the deep antipathy I felt.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(remonstrate) argue, complain, or criticize