expostulatory

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
    — It is unquestionably a "Tendenzschrift," apologetic and expostulatory in tone, designed to defend and expound the writings and traditions of the Rabbis, whose "instructive parables and tales . . . are so many miniature paintings of the habits, manners, and modes of thinking, of an ancient people at a remote period of antiquity" ("Essay," London ed., 1826, p. 81).

词形变化

more expostulatory comparative most expostulatory superlative

词源

From expostulate + -ory.
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