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Definition of Expostulatory
1. a. Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.
Definition of Expostulatory
1. Adjective. Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expostulatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expostulatory
Literary usage of Expostulatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1847)
"Penn's expostulatory Letter. —Mortgages his Province, and resolves to sell it.
— His Health fails. — His Decline, and Death. ..."
2. The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1885)
"... the Cottage — His Letter to Mr. Eton—Godwin's expostulatory Epistle —His
Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal — Reasonableness of Godwin's admonitions ..."
3. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"It was long, expostulatory, argumentative, if not criminating ; and , recapitulated
all the points, on which the: Grown and the Commons had so obstinately ..."
4. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"A letter of Mary queen of Scots to queen Elizabeth,jrom Tutbury castle, anno
1569, expostulatory, concerning favouring her rebels. My lady and good sister, ..."
5. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1830)
"To morrow morning I will wait on you. So I ever continue, etc. FR BACON. »
Sir Francis Bacon to Sir Edward Coke, expostulatory. ..."
6. Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis by Charles Cornwallis Cornwallis (1859)
"... gazetted for Plymouth — Design of going to the Emperor — expostulatory Letter
to Mr. Pitt —Accepts the Tower. ..."
7. The Life of the Rev. Rowland Hill, A.M. by Edwin Sidney (1844)
"Notwithstanding this, Mr. Hill thought it right to express his censure of these
amusements, in an expostulatory address to the clergyman in question, ..."
8. An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain by Jeremy Collier (1840)
"... and soon after their going off, the king wrote an expostulatory letter to the
pope in defence of the liberties of the Church of England. ..."
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