Sunday, May 23, 2010

expostulation

p. 138. "The circle closed up again with a running murmur of expostulation; it was a minute before I could see anything at all."

Definition: to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done

expostulatingly (adverb)
expostulator (noun)
expostulate (verb)

Buckley noted with approval Kirk’s warning in the last chapter that “simple expostulation and lamentation” will not suffice to resist the liberals’ planned society.

In the distance approaching me I see two women walking briskly along, one in animated expostulation and the other nodding in answer.

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