All 14 Uses
remonstrate
in
Little Dorrit
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- An evil star occasioned Madame Rigaud to advert to her relations; I reasoned with her on that subject, and remonstrated on the want of duty and devotion manifested in her allowing herself to be influenced by their jealous animosity towards her husband.†
Chpt 1.1remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- Monsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned downward, nothing came of these inclinings.†
Chpt 1.1remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know,' remonstrated Barnacle junior, turning about and putting up the eye-glass.†
Chpt 1.10remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- —Pray think how long ago,' gently remonstrated Arthur.†
Chpt 1.13
- 'If you mean, remonstrated with you—' 'Don't put words into my mouth that I don't mean,' said Jeremiah, sticking to his figurative expression with tenacious and impenetrable obstinacy: 'I mean dropped down upon me.'†
Chpt 1.15
- 'I remonstrated with you,' she began again, 'because—' 'I won't have it!' cried Jeremiah.†
Chpt 1.15
- He was inclined to remonstrate, and to express his opinion that people who couldn't get on without crying, had no business there.†
Chpt 1.19 *
- 'More than I can say myself at any rate,' returned Flora, 'for I might have been dead and buried twenty distinct times over and no doubt whatever should have been before you had genuinely remembered Me or anything like it in spite of which one last remark I wish to make, one last explanation I wish to offer—' 'My dear Mrs Finching,' Arthur remonstrated in alarm.†
Chpt 1.23remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- The current of these meditations would have been stayed sometimes by a rush of shame, bearing a remonstrance to himself from his own open nature, representing that to shelter such suspicions, even for the passing moment, was not to hold the high, unenvious course he had resolved to keep.†
Chpt 1.26remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- Not resting satisfied with the endeavours he had made to recover his lost charge, Mr Meagles addressed a letter of remonstrance, breathing nothing but goodwill, not only to her, but to Miss Wade too.†
Chpt 1.28
- There was something of uncertainty and remonstrance in her look; something that was not all satisfaction.†
Chpt 1.35
- This is understood by your sister, who has already remonstrated with you in my presence; it is understood by your brother; it is understood by—ha hum—by every one of delicacy and sensitiveness except yourself—ha—I am sorry to say, except yourself.†
Chpt 2.5remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- It so evidently heightened his gratification that she often accompanied him afterwards, and the greatest delight of which the old man had shown himself susceptible since his ruin, arose out of these excursions, when he would carry a chair about for her from picture to picture, and stand behind it, in spite of all her remonstrances, silently presenting her to the noble Venetians.†
Chpt 2.5remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
- 'Now, don't,' remonstrated Mr Meagles, 'don't!†
Chpt 2.33remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
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.