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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

protestive en · ADJ

Etymology

From protest + -ive.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Expressing protest.
    • 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. 1981, Wanda C. Bronson, Toddlers' Behaviors with Agemates: