remonstrance

From Middle French remonstrance (French remontrance).

remonstrance (countable and uncountable, plural remonstrances)

1. A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection.
   • 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 52

     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.

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remonstrance f (plural remonstrances)

1. remonstration; remonstrance