3 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
argue, complain, or criticize
- Miss Temple seemed to remonstrate.Chapter 7 (60% in)
- I was about mechanically to obey him, without further remonstrance; but as he helped me into the carriage, he looked at my face.Chapter 24 (52% in)
- ...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.Chapter 27 (37% in)
There are no more uses of "remonstrate" in Jane Eyre.
Typical Usage
(best examples)