Word of the Day: Remonstrance

remonstrance


re-mon-strance / rĭ-mŏn-strəns


noun


1. the act or an instance of protesting or dissenting


Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings.


Mary Wortley Montagu. 1689 - 1762


2. a protest or censure; a rebuke


If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.


From ““Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811 – 1896

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