Dictionary

remonstrative en · ADJ

Etymology

* remonstrate + -ive

Meanings

1. Of, characterized by, or exhibiting remonstration.
   • Pollyanna opened wide her eyes at the remonstrative dismay in her aunt's voice. 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 15, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
   • The man from Shropshire ventures another remonstrative “My lord!” but the Chancellor, being aware of him, has dexterously vanished. 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
   • The parson's part in the dialogue was chiefly remonstrative as to the necessity of Ned's variegated adjectives. 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 62:

Forms

Deriveds

remonstratively

Translations (2)

pl protestacyjny (of, characterized by, or exhibiting remonstration) · bg протестен (of, characterized by, or exhibiting remonstration)