remonstrate

• I was interested in the different stresses used in pronouncing the word remonstrate as compared to demonstrate or contemplate - both of these words used to be stressed on the second syllable (demonstrate, contemplate).Apparently, this changeover is part of a recent (c. mid to late 19th century) trend for verbs ending -ate.Some verbs have always been stressed on the third-to-last syllable (the antepenult), such as accelerate, animate, fascinate, machinate, or militate.
• But before she could remonstrate, her cloak appeared about her shoulders and she was firmly propelled out the door. —  Stephanie Laurens - Four In Hand
• Paralysed with fear, he stood still, till the servants coming from the house made him prisoner Be calm and cool in the face of a foe--remonstrate with a wrong-doer-- fly from tempters; but you cannot be too eager and violent in attacking temptation immediately it presents itself THE CLEANLY DOG A friend told me of another dog, which had been taught habits of cleanliness that some young gentlemen, accustomed to enter the drawing-room with dirty shoes, might advantageously imitate. —  Stories of Animal Sagacity
• Jean de Beaumanoir repaired to Ploërmel to remonstrate, and it was agreed to settle the dispute by a fight between thirty warriors from each camp. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
• Distress was felt at once in Flanders; complaints grew so clamorous that the Regent sent an embassy post-haste to Henry to remonstrate, and to represent the closing of the Staple as an infraction of commercial treaties. —  Henry VIII.

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