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remonstrance

N การ ประท้วง  protest complaint rebuke reproach kan-pra-tuang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REMONSTRANCE

n. 1. Show; discovery. [Not in use. ]
2. Expostulation; strong representation of reasons against a measure, either public or private, and when addressed to a public body, a prince or magistrate, it may be accompanied with a petition or supplication for the removal or prevention of some evil or inconvenience. A party aggrieved presents a remonstrance to the legislature.
3. Pressing suggestions in opposition to a measure or act; as the remonstrances of conscience or of justice.
4. Expostulatory counsel or advice; reproof.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

REMONSTRANCE

Re *mon "strance (-mn "strans ), n. Etym: [Cf. OF. remonstrance, F.remonstrance. See Remonstrate. ]

 

1. The act of remonstrating; as: (a ) A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration. [Obs. ] You may marvel why I... would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than let him be so lost. Shak.

 

(b ) Earnest presentation of reason in opposition to something; protest; expostulation.

 

2. (R.C.Ch. )

 

Defn: Same as Monstrance.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

remonstrance

re mon strance |riˈmänstrəns rəˈmɑnstrəns | noun a forcefully reproachful protest: angry remonstrances in the Senate | he shut his ears to any remonstrance. (the Remonstrance ) a document drawn up in 1610 by the Arminians of the Dutch Reformed Church, presenting the differences between their doctrines and those of the strict Calvinists. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense evidence ): from Old French, or from medieval Latin remonstrantia, from remonstrare demonstrate, show (see remonstrate ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

remonstrance

remonstrance |rɪˈmɒnstr (ə )ns | noun a forcefully reproachful protest: angry remonstrances in the Commons | [ mass noun ] : he shut his ears to any remonstrance. (the Remonstrance ) a document drawn up in 1610 by the Arminians of the Dutch Reformed Church, presenting the differences between their doctrines and those of the strict Calvinists. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense evidence ): from Old French, or from medieval Latin remonstrantia, from remonstrare demonstrate, show (see remonstrate ).

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

remonstrance

re mon strance /rɪmɑ́nstrəns |-mɔ́n -/名詞 C U かたく 抗議, 反対 ; 忠告 .