Remonstrance

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Remonstrance \Re*mon"strance\ (-m?n"strans), n. [Cf. OF.
     remonstrance, F. remonstrance. See {Remonstrate}.]
     1. The act of remonstrating; as:
        (a) A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration.
            [Obs.]
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                  You may marvel why I . . . would not rather
                  Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power
                  Than let him be so lost.          --Shak.
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        (b) Earnest presentation of reason in opposition to
            something; protest; expostulation.
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     2. (R.C.Ch.) Same as {Monstrance}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  remonstrance
       n : the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest [syn: {expostulation},
            {objection}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "remonstrance":
     admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, beef, bitch, boycott,
     briefing, caution, cautioning, caveat, challenge,
     combative reaction, complaint, compunction, consultation, council,
     counsel, counteraction, defiance, demonstration, demur, demurral,
     demurrer, determent, deterrence, difficulty, direction, dispute,
     dissent, dissentience, exception, exhortation, expostulation,
     fractiousness, frightening off, grievance, grievance committee,
     guidance, hortation, howl, idea, indignation meeting, instruction,
     intimidation, kick, march, monition, negativism, noncooperation,
     nonviolent protest, objection, obstinacy, opinion, opposition,
     parley, passive resistance, picketing, proposal, protest,
     protest demonstration, protestation, qualm, question, rally,
     reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration,
     recommendation, refractoriness, reluctance, remonstration,
     renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repulse, repulsion,
     resistance, revolt, scruple, sit-in, squawk, stand, strike,
     suggestion, talking out of, teach-in, thought, uncooperativeness,
     warning, withstanding
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REMONSTRANCE. A petition to a court, or deliberative or legislative body, in 
  which those who have signed it request that something which it is in 
  contemplation to perform shall not be done.