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protestationprot‧es‧ta‧tion /ˌprɒtəˈsteɪʃən ˌprəʊ- $ ˌprɑː-, ˌproʊ-/ noun [countable] formal - But her protestations had been unfulfilled; she had not forgotten.
- By now the man was surrounded, and his protestations happily ignored.
- In spite of the couple's protestations, he forbade Marion to meet Travis again and firmly escorted his tearful daughter home.
- In their minds it had been prefaced with romantic dialogue and protestations of love.
- It was certainly an occasion that made Le Kha Phieu's earlier protestations of continuing socialist purity hard to believe.
- Meanwhile, President Monroe decided that the Creeks were right in their protestations that the Seminoles were a separate tribe.
- One of the most disturbing features of the case was how patients' protestations of abuse were ignored.
- The call to community is not a hollow protestation of universal brotherhood.
a strong statement saying that something is true or not true, when other people believe the oppositeprotestation of protestations of innocence |