protestive
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]protestive (not comparable)
- Expressing protest.
- 1981, Wanda C. Bronson, Toddlers' Behaviors with Agemates:
- Acts include attempt to take, reach for peer's toy, offer-withdraw toy either without vocalization and with neutral affect, or with no more than a brief and mildly protestive vocalization and/or facial expression of frown or pucker.