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Definition of remonstrate in English: remonstrateverb ˈrɛmənstreɪtrəˈmɑnˌstreɪt [no object]Make a forcefully reproachful protest. he turned angrily to remonstrate with Tommy with direct speech ‘You don't mean that,’ she remonstrated Example sentencesExamples - He was remonstrating with a beggar and pointing at a photograph.
- She admits remonstrating with nurses but said she was careful to avoid being offensive or being seen as threatening.
- Taking his privilege as a dying man and the king's uncle, Gaunt remonstrates with him, calling him England's landlord rather than her king.
- On the other hand, when remonstrating with sceptics in private he pleads the mind-blowing evidence that crosses his desk from many intelligence people at home and abroad as if it were raw gospel truth.
- We sense this as he remonstrates at one point by cellular phone with his parents in Tehran about a funeral at which he should be present, yet which he will have to miss, on account of his work, except for the seventh day of mourning.
- ‘I am only trying to turn you into a lady,’ he remonstrates.
- The architect, however, takes the tool out of the artisan's hand and although he remonstrates with him for his clumsiness, begins to enact forgiveness.
- ‘You know it's important to him,’ his wife remonstrated.
- Shouting for it to stop, he propped his charge against a wall and went to remonstrate with the impertinent driver.
- At the same time his wife, Nina, remonstrates with him to assume the mantle of what she regards as his responsibility to bear witness: ‘Survivors are witnesses, and when they are gone there will be nothing left’.
- There is another shocking moment in Juliet's bedroom when her mother and father are remonstrating with her about her refusal to accept Paris.
- Micko was seen remonstrating with the referee and umpires at half time after Chris Conway's goal was disallowed.
- The mother is remonstrating with her daughter who is disfigured by lameness and in more pain than usual because of a recent misguided attempt to climb a mountain.
- Sullivan remonstrates with the Chelsea forward, who lifts an arm to fend him off.
- Eve immediately realizes that this cut results from her frustration and fear, and remonstrates with her mother about her ability to distinguish real or presciently envisioned danger from that which exists only in her imagination.
- These comments were not without irony considering that Quinn was remonstrating with Newry full back Michael Kelly moments before things kicked off.
- He never conceals that he assumes to fulfill a mission through his documentaries, but, while remonstrating with the failures of corporate capitalism, he appeared to be a social critic.
- Jake and Alex argued again, with Alex remonstrating with Jake about the fictitious anonymous buyer.
- For the second time in as many months the Sligo Rovers boss was sent from the sideline for remonstrating with a match official.
- The next day it voted to remonstrate yet again against the king's reply to the protestations of the thirteenth.
Synonyms protest, complain, expostulate argue with, take issue with, take to task, make a protest to reprimand, reproach, reprove, upbraid, berate, scold rare reprehend, objurgate object strongly to, complain vociferously about, protest against, lodge a protest against, argue against, take a stand against, oppose strongly, take exception to, take issue with, make a fuss about, challenge, raise objections to, express disapproval of, express disagreement with, speak out against deplore, condemn, denounce, criticize informal kick up a fuss/stink about
Derivatives noun rɛmənˈstreɪʃ(ə)n So, I have no tearful remonstrations by a victim to report. Example sentencesExamples - Despite their remonstrations with the owner's employee they were forced to pay a fee of £40 for release.
- Don't be deceived by the seeming indifference or the cynical humour; they will be watching your responses carefully and will listen to your remonstrations.
- The consequences of such changes are likely, initially, to lead to vociferous remonstrations, but research suggests that children will settle down and accept such changes within a few weeks.
- A section of the conductors in the city buses, despite their remonstrations about their work load, are shrewd enough to find the situation a ‘blessing in disguise’ to stash money in bits and pieces.
adjective rɪˈmɒnstrətɪv The utter terror with which they cower before him is at once comic (he is rather fond of a remonstrative wagging of his finger) and disturbing (the dancers shrink from his gaze as if cut by a scythe, and tremble in paroxysms of fear). Example sentencesExamples - Four Friends has a decidedly sad, pessimistic, and disturbing undercurrent that belies its characters' joie de vivre with a cautionary, almost remonstrative subtext.
- But it wasn't just Gladstone who copped the remonstrative hand of the Queen.
- The reaction in Spain has been, to the best of my knowledge, the first openly remonstrative instance of people ignoring government propaganda and making up their own minds.
- He adds a monotone, remonstrative vocal to ‘Äesthetik der function’ and a Scottish brogue-laden recitation to nylon guitars in ‘The Hermit Returns (Again).’
noun ˈrɛmənstreɪtə Two remonstrators spoke against the Petition, based on their aesthetic concerns and the potential for a reduction in their property values. Example sentencesExamples - Fifty-two remonstrators filed a petition with the Plan Commission to oppose the rezoning.
Origin Late 16th century (in the sense 'make plain'): from medieval Latin remonstrat- 'demonstrated', from the verb remonstrare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + monstrare 'to show'. muster from Late Middle English: The word muster has a military swagger to it, conjuring up a picture of troops gathering for inspection or in preparation for battle. In Australia and New Zealand, though, the things most often mustered are cattle, sheep, and other livestock that are scattered and need to be rounded up. The phrase to pass muster, ‘to be accepted as adequate or satisfactory’, was originally to pass the musters and referred to soldiers undergoing inspection without getting into trouble with senior officers. The word itself goes back to Latin monstrare ‘to show’, the source also of demonstrate (mid 16th century) and remonstrate (late 16th century).
Definition of remonstrate in US English: remonstrateverbrəˈmänˌstrātrəˈmɑnˌstreɪt [no object]Make a forcefully reproachful protest. he turned angrily to remonstrate with Tommy with direct speech “You don't mean that,” she remonstrated Example sentencesExamples - ‘I am only trying to turn you into a lady,’ he remonstrates.
- On the other hand, when remonstrating with sceptics in private he pleads the mind-blowing evidence that crosses his desk from many intelligence people at home and abroad as if it were raw gospel truth.
- He never conceals that he assumes to fulfill a mission through his documentaries, but, while remonstrating with the failures of corporate capitalism, he appeared to be a social critic.
- Micko was seen remonstrating with the referee and umpires at half time after Chris Conway's goal was disallowed.
- Sullivan remonstrates with the Chelsea forward, who lifts an arm to fend him off.
- The architect, however, takes the tool out of the artisan's hand and although he remonstrates with him for his clumsiness, begins to enact forgiveness.
- Shouting for it to stop, he propped his charge against a wall and went to remonstrate with the impertinent driver.
- The mother is remonstrating with her daughter who is disfigured by lameness and in more pain than usual because of a recent misguided attempt to climb a mountain.
- He was remonstrating with a beggar and pointing at a photograph.
- These comments were not without irony considering that Quinn was remonstrating with Newry full back Michael Kelly moments before things kicked off.
- The next day it voted to remonstrate yet again against the king's reply to the protestations of the thirteenth.
- At the same time his wife, Nina, remonstrates with him to assume the mantle of what she regards as his responsibility to bear witness: ‘Survivors are witnesses, and when they are gone there will be nothing left’.
- Eve immediately realizes that this cut results from her frustration and fear, and remonstrates with her mother about her ability to distinguish real or presciently envisioned danger from that which exists only in her imagination.
- There is another shocking moment in Juliet's bedroom when her mother and father are remonstrating with her about her refusal to accept Paris.
- For the second time in as many months the Sligo Rovers boss was sent from the sideline for remonstrating with a match official.
- ‘You know it's important to him,’ his wife remonstrated.
- Jake and Alex argued again, with Alex remonstrating with Jake about the fictitious anonymous buyer.
- She admits remonstrating with nurses but said she was careful to avoid being offensive or being seen as threatening.
- Taking his privilege as a dying man and the king's uncle, Gaunt remonstrates with him, calling him England's landlord rather than her king.
- We sense this as he remonstrates at one point by cellular phone with his parents in Tehran about a funeral at which he should be present, yet which he will have to miss, on account of his work, except for the seventh day of mourning.
Synonyms protest, complain, expostulate object strongly to, complain vociferously about, protest against, lodge a protest against, argue against, take a stand against, oppose strongly, take exception to, take issue with, make a fuss about, challenge, raise objections to, express disapproval of, express disagreement with, speak out against
Origin Late 16th century (in the sense ‘make plain’): from medieval Latin remonstrat- ‘demonstrated’, from the verb remonstrare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + monstrare ‘to show’. |