remonstrating

Verb

remonstrate (third-person singular simple present remonstrates, present participle remonstrating, simple past and past participle remonstrated)

1. (intransitive) To object with in critical fashion; to express disapproval (with, against).
   • Whitshed, the Chief Justice, consistently with his action on a previous occasion (see volume vii.), angrily remonstrated with the jury, demanded of them their reasons for such a decision, and finally dissolved them.1724, The Drapier's Letters, Jonathan Swift, Letter 4
2. (historical, intransitive) Specifically, to lodge an official objection (especially by means of a remonstrance) with a monarch or other ruling body.
   • In 1753-4, the Parlements of Aix, Bordeaux, Rennes and Rouen remonstrated in support of the exiled Paris institution.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 233
3. (often, transitive) To state or plead as an objection, formal protest, or expression of disapproval.
   • "Belinda," remonstrated Mr. Pocket, from the other end of the table, "how can you be so unreasonable? […]"1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter IV, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 69
4. To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
   • I might remonstrate how great, and how sure , and how persevering mercies a pious father of a family may derive upon his succeeding generations1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd...