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expostulateth

expostulateth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of expostulate.

Meaning of expostulate

Verb

expostulate (third-person singular simple present expostulates, present participle expostulating, simple past and past participle expostulated)

  1. (intransitive) To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct [(often) with with].
    • The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be...1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC

Origin of expostulateth

expostulate + -eth

Questions about expostulateth

What is expostulateth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Expostulateth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of expostulate.

Words near expostulateth in the dictionary

  1. exposomics
  2. expostfacto
  3. expostulate
  4. expostulated
  5. expostulates
  6. expostulateth
  7. expostulating
  8. expostulatingly
  9. expostulation
  10. expostulations
  11. expostulative

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