All 11 Uses
remonstrate
in
The Prairie, by Cooper
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- His remonstrance, seconded, as it was, by a prompt and energetic action, did not fail to produce the submission to his order, which the occasion seemed, indeed, imperiously to require.†
Chpt 3remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- So far from opposing any remonstrance to the rude and violent manner in which his conquerors performed the customary office, he even anticipated their cupidity, by tendering to the chiefs such articles as he thought might prove the most acceptable.†
Chpt 4
- So strong, indeed, and so very natural was the inclination, that she would most probably have put it in execution, but for the often repeated though whispered remonstrances of Paul Hover.†
Chpt 4remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
- Before time was given for a word of remonstrance, it had sent forth its contents, in its usual streak of bright flame.†
Chpt 8 *remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- But Dr. Battius, who had hitherto been a silent and thoughtful attendant on the woman, now saw fit to raise his feeble voice in the way of remonstrance.†
Chpt 12
- The dogs were so far restrained, by the remonstrances of the old man, as to confine their noise to low but often-repeated whinings.†
Chpt 17remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
- As if resolved to listen to no remonstrance, the old man quietly shouldered his rifle, and moving leisurely through the thicket, he issued on the plain, at a point whence he might first appear before the eyes of the Siouxes, without exciting their suspicions that he came from its cover.†
Chpt 20remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- The old man strongly remonstrated against this arrangement, and more than once hinted that the knife was much more certain than the tether, but the petitions of Obed, aided perhaps by the secret reluctance of the trapper to destroy the beast, were the means of saving its life.†
Chpt 22remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- Before time was allowed for remonstrance, the old man, who had continued during the whole scene like one much at a loss how to proceed, though also like one who was rather perplexed than alarmed, suddenly assumed a decided air, as if he no longer doubted on the course it was most advisable to pursue.†
Chpt 23remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- Middleton and Paul saw no use in wasting their breath in remonstrances against this proposal.†
Chpt 24remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
- She neither heard remonstrances, nor felt the touch.†
Chpt 26
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.