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What does expostulation mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable) The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.
  2. (uncountable) A comment of earnest reasoning meant to dissuade or remonstrate.
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The words, which contain a lover's pathetic expostulation with his fickle mistress, are set for four voices.
Even towards the end of his life, he warded off the insinuations of Alberto Pio of carpi in a lengthy expostulation.
It is never any good, and neither is the faint air of expostulation that Mrs McAllister has begun to bring to discussions of Marigold's social life.
It was exciting, and always got the crowd going, with much clapping, expostulation and dancing of the gopak.
The voices of men, one in entreaty, one in expostulation, came from the box.
Perhaps this expostulation with one of their witnesses, awakened their suspicions.

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