Both Uses

remonstrate
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
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We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.†

remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne.†
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remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition

Definitions:

(1) (remonstrate)
argue, complain, or criticize
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In Shakespeare's time, remonstrance was used as a synonym for display, revelation, or manifestation.