expostulativeadj.
/ɛkˈspɒstjʊlətɪv/ Aiming at or tending to expostulation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > [adjective] > remonstrating
expostulatory1592
expostulating1637
remonstrating1660
deprecatory1704
remonstrant1773
remonstratory1823
expostulative1837
Protestant1844
deprecating1871
expostulant1880
deprecative1884
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. vi. 367 Maillard,..repressive with the one hand, expostulative with the other, does his best.
Derivatives
exˈpostulatively adv. in an expostulative manner.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > [adverb]
protestingly1758
remonstratingly1829
deprecatingly1836
remonstrantly1872
deprecatorily1873
deprecatively1879
expostulatingly1883
expostulatively1888
1888 Longman's Mag. Apr. 635 ‘What's the harm?’ responded the young gentleman expostulatively.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.1837