REMONSTRANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remonstrance mean? 

• REMONSTRANCE (noun)
  The noun REMONSTRANCE has 1 sense:

1. the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest

  Familiarity information: REMONSTRANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMONSTRANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of expressing earnest opposition or protest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

expostulation; objection; remonstrance; remonstration

Hypernyms ("remonstrance" is a kind of...):

communicating; communication (the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information)

 Context examples 

Have you made no remonstrance about it, Agnes?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She meant to avoid any such alteration of manners as might provoke a remonstrance on his side.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“Think of the long rest this winter,” was her reply to my remonstrances.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Nor would he stoop to give a reason in such a case, but would answer all remonstrances with a curl of his lip and a flash of his dark eyes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Finding all remonstrance useless, the three comrades hastened on their way, leaving these strange travellers to their dreary task.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Isabella, however, caught hold of one hand, Thorpe of the other, and remonstrances poured in from all three.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I cannot see you acting wrong, without a remonstrance.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

To save herself from useless remonstrance, Mrs. Price never wrote to her family on the subject till actually married.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect,” he continued, disregarding my remonstrance.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“At present I cannot spare energy and nerve force for digestion,” he would say in answer to my medical remonstrances.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)