EGAVE

expostulate

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct .mw-parser-output .object-usage-tag{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .deprecated{color:var(--wikt-palette-grey-lime-8,olivedrab)}[ with with]. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

Similar words

remonstrate exhort repostulate redargue preach reprove plead take up take exception replead

Often followed by

with on and in the against upon that or

Word family

expostulated expostulates expostulating

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