expostulation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate. countable,uncountable
    — [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.

词形变化

expostulations plural

词源

From Latin expostulātiōnem, accusative singular of expostulātiō (“complaint, expostulation”), from expostulō (“demand, expostulate”), from ex (“out of, from”) + postulō (“demand or claim”). See expostulate.
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