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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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So the lady chose to think it her duty to expostulate with Hugh on the subject.
An official could expostulate with the emperor over his decisions and policies, but never rebel.
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.
Then I had a letter from one of my Leeds readers the other day to expostulate about the inappropriateness of certain of them!
He is one will fight first, and then expostulate, condemn first, and then examine.
It seems odd that Tony Wilson is not around to expostulate and wax provocatively at all the eulogies and sadness of the past week.

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