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Definition of Objection

1. Noun. The act of expressing earnest opposition or protest.

2. Noun. The speech act of objecting.

3. Noun. The act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent.

4. Noun. (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality.

Definition of Objection

1. n. The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.

Definition of Objection

1. Noun. The act of objecting. ¹

2. Noun. A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition. ¹

3. Noun. (legal) An official protest raised in a court of law during a legal trial over a violation of the rules of the court by the opposing party. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Objection

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Objection

object relationship object space object spaces objectable objected objecthood objectifiable objectification objectified objectifier

objectifiers objectifies objectify objectifying objecting objection (current term) objectionability objectionable objectionableness objectionably

objectional objections objectist objectists objectivate objectivated objectivates objectivating objectivation objectivations

Literary usage of Objection

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"objection TO PORTRAITURE. THE photographs reproduced in Plate I. were taken by ... They exemplify the objection to being photographed without permission, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Francis Vesey, John Beames, John Scott Eldon (1813)
"... of the other Nine to concur with him; and there would be no objection from the ... or the Reluct- No objection ance of the other Tenants in Common, ..."

3. Code of Law, Practice and Forms for Justices' and Other Inferior Courts in by Curtis Hillyer (1912)
"Form of objection. If he objects to the legal sufficiency of the accusation, the objection must be in writing, but need not be in any specific form, ..."

4. A Treatise on the Power and Duty of an Arbitrator, and the Law of by Francis Russell (1878)
"... if the conduct of the parties be such as shows that in-Jgu- they waive any objection on account of it; but the waiver lanty- must be clearly made out ..."

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