remonstrance
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French remonstrance (French remontrance).
Noun
remonstrance (countable and uncountable, plural remonstrances)
- A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, objection or protest.
- 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LII, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book V, page 155:
- 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.
Related terms
Translations
remonstration
Middle French
Noun
remonstrance f (plural remonstrances)