Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who expostulates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who expostulates.
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- noun One who
expostulates .
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Examples
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My inclination ought, perhaps, to be absolutely neuter; but, if I know myself, it is with reluctance that I withhold my assent from the expostulator.
Jane Talbot Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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I till you, colonel, there ain't no use in your stoppin 'another minnit! "impatiently cried the good-natured Irishman, interrupting his half-hearted expostulator.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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They were just at the head of the steps, and the Tout was saying to the fat expostulator: "I could have put you next; I steered a big bettor on
Thoroughbreds William Alexander Fraser 1896
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