Meaning of expostulation | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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