remonstrance

English

Noun

remonstrance (plural remonstrances)

1. A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection.
   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, ch. 52:

     Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance.

   • 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.

Related terms

• remonstrate
• remonstration

Translations

remonstration

Armenian: Old Armenian: խրատ (xrat) Bulgarian: протест (bg) (protést) m. Italian: protesta (it) f.

Manx: ard-hionnraa (gv) Polish: protest (pl) m. Russian: протест (ru) (protést) m., уговор (ru) (uvgovór) m.