All 4 Uses
remonstrate
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Brideshead Revisited
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- Towards the end of that summer term I received the last visit and Grand Remonstrance of my cousin Jasper.†
p. 43.1 *remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- On the day after Jasper's Grand Remonstrance I received another, in different terms and from an unexpected source.†
p. 49.3
- When I remonstrated he said, "I can't stand all these people about," but it was when they finally left and he had to face his family at close quarters that he broke down.†
p. 147.3remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
- I let her get clear of the place and was about to follow—the rooms were nearly empty—when I heard a voice at the turnstile I had not heard for many years, an unforgettable self-taught stammer, a sharp cadence of remonstration.†
p. 308.5remonstration = argument 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.