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Definition of Expostulation
1. Noun. The act of expressing earnest opposition or protest.
Generic synonyms: Communicating, Communication
Derivative terms: Expostulate, Object
2. Noun. An exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof.
Definition of Expostulation
1. n. The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion.
Definition of Expostulation
1. Noun. (context: countable) The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate. ¹
2. Noun. (context: uncountable) A comment of earnest reasoning meant to dissuade or remonstrate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expostulation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expostulation
Literary usage of Expostulation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1875)
"By Henry Edward, Archbishop of Westminster. London, 1875. 3. A Reply to the Right
Hon. WE Gladstones 'Political expostulation.' By the Right Rev. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"Jonson answered Jones's complaints in satires entitled • An expostulation with
Iñigo Jones ' and ' A Corollary to Iñigo Marquis Would-be' (COLLIER, ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... That no way e'-se could possibly be true: " 1 am the life"—*o which, as Adam
died, Nothing could bring mankind again, beside. AH expostulation ..."
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