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Expostulation is the noun that belongs with expostulate: the act of speaking up like that, or the words themselves. One expostulation can be a single protest; a scene full of them is people reasoning hard against a plan. It has the same formal, slightly old air as the verb. In easy English: a strong, protest — the kind you make because you care what the other person is about to do, not only because you want to win.
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組成From Latin expostulātiōnem, from expostulātiō (“complaint, expostulation”), from expostulō, from ex (“out of, from”) + postulō (“demand or claim”). See expostulate.
同家族的字
- expostulatethe verb this noun comes from
- postulateshares Latin postulō, “to demand or claim”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
expostulationnoun
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The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.
- [H]eedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained calling, at intervals, and then listening, and then crying outright.
- At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。