expostulate

expostulate

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1. valittaa tai nuhdella muodollisesti ja/tai kohteliaasti

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1. kiistellä, riidellä, järkeillä, perustella, nuhdella.

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expostulate englanniksi

• To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct.

• Jowett

Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong.

• 1719, w:Daniel Defoe|Daniel Defoe, w:Robinson Crusoe|Robinson Crusoe

The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life.

• 1843, w:Thomas_Carlyle Thomas Carlyle, :w:Past and Present (book)|Past and Present, book 2, ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways

… he affectionately loved many persons to whom he never or hardly ever shewed a countenance of love. Once on my venturing to expostulate with him on the subject, he reminded me of Solomon: “Many sons I have; it is not fit that I should smile on them.”

• (inflection of)

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