All 21 Uses
remonstrate
in
Bleak House
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- The man from Shropshire ventures another remonstrative "My lord!" but the Chancellor, being aware of him, has dexterously vanished.†
Chpt 1-3remonstrative = in a manner that argues in protest or opposition
- I was going to remonstrate.†
Chpt 4-6
- I remonstrated, in allusion to the epithet and the vigorous emphasis Miss Jellyby set upon it.†
Chpt 4-6remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- "Oh, dear me!" remonstrated Sir Leicester.†
Chpt 10-12
- I remonstrated.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Still, Tony, you were on the wrong side of the post then," remonstrates Mr. Guppy.†
Chpt 19-21remonstrates = argues in protest or opposition
- Indeed, I felt the whole state of my mind in reference to her to be weak and unreasonable, and I remonstrated with myself about it as much as I could.†
Chpt 22-24remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- I remonstrated.†
Chpt 22-24
- No, no, no, sir," remonstrates Grandfather Smallweed, cunningly rubbing his spare legs.†
Chpt 25-27remonstrates = argues in protest or opposition
- Finding by this time that his friend is not to be wheedled into a more sociable humour, Mr. Guppy puts about upon the ill-used tack and remonstrates with him.†
Chpt 31-33
- Mr. William Guppy, however, having got the advantage, cannot quite release it without a little more injured remonstrance.
Chpt 31-33 *remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- "Why, Tony," remonstrates his friend, "how you look!†
Chpt 31-33remonstrates = argues in protest or opposition
- "Oh, Richard," I remonstrated, "is it possible that you can ever have seen him and heard him, that you can ever have lived under his roof and known him, and can yet breathe, even to me in this solitary place where there is no one to hear us, such unworthy suspicions?"†
Chpt 37-39remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- "Volumnia," remonstrates Sir Leicester with his utmost severity.†
Chpt 40-42remonstrates = argues in protest or opposition
- There is a quiet decision in his reply which admits of no remonstrance.†
Chpt 40-42remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- "So that it is even more mischievous," said my guardian once to me, "to remonstrate with the poor dear fellow than to leave him alone."†
Chpt 43-45
- "Nay, my dears," he would remonstrate; and when I saw Caddy's thin arm about his fat neck as he said it, I would be melted too, though not by the same process.†
Chpt 49-51
- I remonstrated.†
Chpt 49-51remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- Mr. Bucket remonstrates.†
Chpt 52-54remonstrates = argues in protest or opposition
- The old girl relieves her feelings and testifies her interest in the conversation by giving the trooper a great poke between the shoulders with her umbrella; this action she afterwards repeats, at intervals, in a species of affectionate lunacy, never failing, after the administration of each of these remonstrances, to resort to the whitened wall and the grey cloak again.†
Chpt 55-57remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
- Mr. Woodcourt, disregarding my remonstrances, had hurriedly taken off his cloak and was putting it about me.†
Chpt 58-60
Definitions:
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(1)
(remonstrate) argue, complain, or criticize
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In Shakespeare's time, remonstrance was used as a synonym for display, revelation, or manifestation.