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expostulations

expostulations is the plural of expostulation.

Meaning of expostulation

Noun

expostulation (countable and uncountable, plural expostulations)

  1. The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.
    • [H]eedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained calling, at intervals, and then listening, and then crying outright.1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter IX, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 188

Questions about expostulations

What is expostulations the plural of?
Expostulations is the plural of expostulation.

Words near expostulations in the dictionary

  1. expostulates
  2. expostulateth
  3. expostulating
  4. expostulatingly
  5. expostulation
  6. expostulations
  7. expostulative
  8. expostulatively
  9. expostulator
  10. expostulators
  11. expostulatory

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