expostulation
Noun
The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.
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[H]eedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained calling, at intervals, and then listening, and then crying outright.
At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt […]
The official declined to listen to any expostulations.
Noun
the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
- Broader terms
an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof
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Word forms
expostulations