All 11 Uses
remonstrate
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Vanity Fair
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- Osborne said to his friend's remonstrances, when they quitted the invalid, leaving him under the hands of Doctor Gollop.†
Chpt 6 *remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
- Her engagement was owing to the remonstrances of Mr. Pitt Crawley, the only friend or protector Lady Crawley ever had, and the only person, besides her children, for whom she entertained a little feeble attachment.†
Chpt 9
- "Why, hang it, Pitt!" said the father to his remonstrance.†
Chpt 10remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- Don't remonstrate.†
Chpt 20
- But George was the master, and his friend did not think fit to remonstrate.†
Chpt 25
- The splendour of the entertainment, and the apartments in which it was given, alarmed Mr. Dobbin, who remonstrated after dinner, when Jos was asleep in the great chair.†
Chpt 26remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- Many timid remonstrances had she uttered to George in behalf of her brother, but the former in his trenchant way cut these entreaties short.†
Chpt 31remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
- She passed five hours by her friend's side, sometimes in remonstrance, sometimes talking cheerfully, oftener in silence and terrified mental supplication.†
Chpt 32remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- The Scotch gardener, who still lingered on the premises, taking a pride in his walls and hot-houses, and indeed making a pretty good livelihood by the garden, which he farmed, and of which he sold the produce at Southampton, found the Ribbons eating peaches on a sunshiny morning at the south-wall, and had his ears boxed when he remonstrated about this attack on his property.†
Chpt 39remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- But, prowling about the City always eagerly and restlessly still, he lighted upon some other scheme, of which he thought so well that he embarked in it in spite of the remonstrances of Mr. Clapp, to whom indeed he never dared to tell how far he had engaged himself in it.†
Chpt 46remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
- "I'll stop and go home with that rascal, Kirsch," Jos said; and for the same reason of modesty, which he thought ought to be preserved before the boy, Dobbin did not care to remonstrate with Jos, but left him and walked home with Georgy.†
Chpt 63
Definitions:
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(1)
(remonstrate) argue, complain, or criticize
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In Shakespeare's time, remonstrance was used as a synonym for display, revelation, or manifestation.