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Webster 1913 Edition


Remonstrance

Re-mon′strance

(-m?n′strans)
,
Noun.
[Cf. OF.
remonstrance
, F.
remonstrance
. See
Remonstrate
.]
1.
The act of remonstrating
; as:
(a)
A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration.
[Obs.]
You may marvel why I . . . would not rather
Make rash
remonstrance
of my hidden power
Than let him be so lost.
Shakespeare
(b)
Earnest presentation of reason in opposition to something; protest; expostulation.
2.
(R.C.Ch.)
Same as
Monstrance
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Remonstrance

REMON'STRANCE

,
Noun.
1.
Show; discovery. [Not in use.]
2.
Expostulation; strong representation of reasons against a measure, either public or private, and when addressed to a public body, a prince or magistrate, it may be accompanied with a petition or supplication for the removal or prevention of some evil or inconvenience. A party aggrieved presents a remonstrance to the legislature.
3.
Pressing suggestions in opposition to a measure or act; as the remonstrances of conscience or of justice.
4.
Expostulatory counsel or advice; reproof.

Definition 2024


remonstrance

remonstrance

English

Noun

remonstrance (plural remonstrances)

  1. A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection.
    • 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 52
      Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance.
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
      But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
    • 2004, Perry Link, "China: A new postmortem on Tiananmen," Time, 15 March:
      In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake.

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Middle French

Noun

remonstrance f (plural remonstrances)

  1. remonstration; remonstrance