Expostulate

//ɛksˈpɑstjʊleɪt// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 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. 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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