Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of remonstrating; a remonstrance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of remonstrating; remonstrance.
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- noun
Protest ,objection ,disapproving pleading , or an act thereof.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
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Examples
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Yet not a word of remonstration form the President nor his Energy Secretary Steven Chu holding OPEC's production restraints accountable for today's extortionary high oil prices.
Raymond J. Learsy: When It Comes to Gas Prices Donald Trump Trumps the Field Raymond J. Learsy 2011
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Yet not a word of remonstration form the President nor his Energy Secretary Steven Chu holding OPEC's production restraints accountable for today's extortionary high oil prices.
Raymond J. Learsy: When It Comes to Gas Prices Donald Trump Trumps the Field Raymond J. Learsy 2011
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Yet not a word of remonstration form the President nor his Energy Secretary Steven Chu holding OPEC's production restraints accountable for today's extortionary high oil prices.
Raymond J. Learsy: When It Comes to Gas Prices Donald Trump Trumps the Field Raymond J. Learsy 2011
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Yet not a word of remonstration form the President nor his Energy Secretary Steven Chu holding OPEC's production restraints accountable for today's extortionary high oil prices.
Raymond J. Learsy: When It Comes to Gas Prices Donald Trump Trumps the Field Raymond J. Learsy 2011
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Actually, the Mexican Congress has very recently proposed legalization of drugs but received a very swift and stern remonstration from the Bush administration and the idea was dropped.
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Students were force-fed a stew of mythology ("the majority of beer drinkers die of dropsy"), remonstration ("persons should not take a stimulant before bathing"), and terror ("when alcohol passes down the throat it burns off the skin, leaving it bare and burning").
Stanton Peele: Saying Bad Things About Booze -- Propaganda as Science Stanton Peele 2011
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We urgently need to throw a "tent" of public remonstration and outcry over that hallowed abode, to cause them to quake and hunker down inside.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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And then in zaps the chorus, a remonstration of sorts, or a call to arms: "Life is just a precious minute baby," it yells.
Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll Laura Barton 2010
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I didn't really know her except at Crosland's side, but she would occasionally send me little notes of approval or remonstration if I wrote something about his time as education secretary: but to see her was to remember her.
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We urgently need to throw a "tent" of public remonstration and outcry over that hallowed abode, to cause them to quake and hunker down inside.
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