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Expostulatory

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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)."

Etymology

From expostulate + -ory.

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