Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a remonstrant manner; remonstratively; as or by remonstrance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a remonstrant manner.
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- adverb In a
remonstrant manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Can you really afford this, Helena?" she asked remonstrantly, as the hack slid down the steep hill.
The Californians Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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"My last night at home, Vix," he said remonstrantly; "I really ought to dine with my mother."
Vixen, Volume I. 1875
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"But when she saw the good that might come of staying --" said Dorothea, remonstrantly, looking at Lydgate as if he had forgotten the reasons which had just been considered.
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Dorothea, remonstrantly, looking at Lydgate as if he had forgotten the reasons which had just been considered.
Middlemarch 1871
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"But when she saw the good that might come of staying --" said Dorothea, remonstrantly, looking at Lydgate as if he had forgotten the reasons which had just been considered.
Middlemarch George Eliot 1849
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Gwendolen, remonstrantly, as Mrs. Davilow, having prepared the writing materials, looked toward her expectantly.
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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"How can you ask me that?" said Deronda, remonstrantly.
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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But, to her intense disgust, Jerry, who had followed her with his basket, said remonstrantly: "Whethen now, Mrs. Joyce, the way I understand the matter there's no talk in it of borryin 'at all.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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"But, Dorothea," he said, remonstrantly, "you can't undertake to manage a man's life for him in that way.
Middlemarch 1871
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"But, Dorothea," he said, remonstrantly, "you can't undertake to manage a man's life for him in that way.
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