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What does expostulate mean?

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  1. To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct.
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So the lady chose to think it her duty to expostulate with Hugh on the subject.
He is one will fight first, and then expostulate, condemn first, and then examine.
Then I had a letter from one of my Leeds readers the other day to expostulate about the inappropriateness of certain of them!
An official could expostulate with the emperor over his decisions and policies, but never rebel.
Babalatchi was angry and tried to expostulate, but he gave him a good shaking.
When we come to ask mercy of God, and to pray for grace to love and serve him, we may plead and expostulate for the bestowment.

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