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What does expostulate mean?

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  1. To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct.
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When we come to ask mercy of God, and to pray for grace to love and serve him, we may plead and expostulate for the bestowment.
Babalatchi was angry and tried to expostulate, but he gave him a good shaking.
Before he has any chance to expostulate, he is mortally wounded by the tenor and dies.
It seems odd that Tony Wilson is not around to expostulate and wax provocatively at all the eulogies and sadness of the past week.
Banks expostulate before the government that if cant place the credits because CNB keeps their hands tied.
He is one will fight first, and then expostulate, condemn first, and then examine.

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