Definition of "expostulations" [expostulations]

• Plural form of expostulation. (noun)

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• "In other expressions his passion is rather too bold in expostulations with God concerning the deplorable condition he was in (ver. 14, 19, &c.), complaining of the confusion he was in (ver. 20-22), and the loss he was at to find out the sin that provoked God thus to afflict him, and in short of the rigour of God's proceedings against him, ver."
• "Then, from inside, we heard oaths, vile and filthy, urgings and expostulations on the part of Nancy, meekly and pleadingly uttered."
• ""There's no telling what might happen -- machinery break down, or something," was his reply to Captain Jones's expostulations."