expostulate
verb (used without object)
to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate.
expostulator
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a word derived from
expostulate.
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Henry Austin
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.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
