All 3 Uses of
remonstrate
in
Jane Eyre
- I was about mechanically to obey him, without further remonstrance; but as he helped me into the carriage, he looked at my face.†
p. 306.8remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- that kindly conversation could not be sustained between us, because whatever topic I started, immediately 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;†
p. 353.3
- Miss Temple seemed to remonstrate.†
p. 76.7 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(remonstrate) argue, complain, or criticize
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In Shakespeare's time, remonstrance was used as a synonym for display, revelation, or manifestation.