All 3 Uses of
remonstrate
in
Jane Eyre
- Miss Temple seemed to remonstrate.†
p. 76.7 *
- I was about mechanically to obey him, without further remonstrance; but as he helped me into the carriage, he looked at my face.†
p. 306.8remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- and trite, perverse and imbecile — when I perceived that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the continued outbreaks of her violent and unreasonable temper, or the vexations of her absurd, contradictory, exacting orders — even then I restrained myself: I eschewed upbraiding, I curtailed remonstrance; I tried to devour my repentance and disgust in secret; I repressed the deep antipathy I felt.†
p. 353.3
Definition:
argue, complain, or criticize