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Definition of Expostulation

Expostulation
Expostulation Ex*pos`tu*la"tion, n. [L. expostulatio.] The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. --Shak.

Meaning of Expostulation from wikipedia

- In argumentation, an objection is a reason arguing against a premise, argument, or conclusion. Definitions of objection vary in whether an objection is...
- explanations; a satisfactory response duly arrived back, notwithstanding expostulation about the propriety of all this from some of the Alexandrian Christians...
- kie). As here, it expresses surprise, amu****t, satisfaction, mild expostulation, and the like. It has nothing like the meaning of the adjective OK,...
- written by Coleridge; all the other poems were written by Wordsworth. Expostulation and Reply The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject Old...
- to whose **** and quality nothing is so improper as either needless expostulations or over much curiosity in her own actions". The advice worked. James's...
- parts, each consisting of 3 sub-sections, called the meditation, the expostulation and a prayer. The 23 sections are chronologically ordered, each covering...
- The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Expostulation (1 ed.). London: John Murray. Retrieved 10 June 2016 – via Internet...
- The Vatican Decrees in their bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Expostulation, in which he said that after the Syllabus no one can now become [Rome's]...
- (1798) "Simon Lee" "We are Seven" "Lines Written in Early Spring" "Expostulation and Reply" "The Tables Turned" "The Thorn" "Lines Composed A Few Miles...
- the order had lessened. Mysticism, full of the ideas Albertus Magnus expostulated, became the devotion of the greatest minds and hands within the organization...