remonstrance Hear it!

remonstrance Definition

re·mon·strance (ri män′strəns)

noun

  1. the act or an instance of remonstrating; protest, complaint, or expostulation
  2. a document setting forth certain points or listing complaints, grievances, etc.

Etymology: LME < MFr < ML remonstrantia

remonstrance Synonyms

remonstrance

n.

protest, complaint, rebuke, reproach; see objection 2.

remonstrance Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • reject: Drafted by Edward Hyde, it rejected the Remonstrance but in reasoned and conciliatory tones calculated to appeal to patriotism and loyalty.

Adjective modifier

  • feeble: I think they must have been given to feeble remonstrance, getting more and more peevish as it became more and more ineffectual.
  • pointed: I continued making her the most pointed remonstrances until, in spite of her efforts to control herself, she burst into tears.
remonstrance Quotes

I hardly know which is the greater pest to society: a paternal Government; that is to say, a prying meddlesome Government, which intrudes itself into every part of human life and which thinks that it can do everything for everybody better than anyone can do for himself, or a careless, lounging Government, which suffers grievances, such as it could at once remove, to grow and multiply, and which to all complaint and remonstrance has only one answer,'We must let things taketheir course, we must let things find theirown level.'

—1st Baron