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Expostulate
//ɛksˈpɑstjʊleɪt// verb
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Verb
- 1 To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct [(often) with with]. intransitive
"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."
- 2 reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion wordnet
Etymology
From Latin expostulō (“demand, claim”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, ex- + postulate.
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