remonstrance

remonstrance

English

Etymology

From Middle French remonstrance (French remontrance).

Noun

remonstrance (countable and uncountable, plural remonstrances)

1. A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, objection or protest.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 151:

     Moreover, you must remember, even as children, Marie was ever more resolute than myself; and now, how little would she heed remonstrance of mine!

   • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LII, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783829, book V, page 155:

     Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance, [...]

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.

   • 2004, Perry Link, "China: A new postmortem on Tiananmen," Time, 15 March:

     In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake.

Related terms

• remonstrate
• remonstration

Translations

remonstration

Armenian: Old Armenian: խրատ (xrat) Bulgarian: проте́ст (bg) m (protést), възражение (bg) n (vǎzraženie) German: Protest (de) m, Einspruch (de) m, Beschwerde (de) f Italian: protesta (it) f Manx: ard-hionnraa Polish: protest (pl) m Russian: проте́ст (ru) m (protést)

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Middle French

Noun

remonstrance f (plural remonstrances)

1. remonstration; remonstrance