Definition of "remonstrances" []

• Plural form of remonstrance. (noun)

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• "Appeals and remonstrances from the porch having no effect upon her, Bess despatched a little girl to beg of her to pick no more poppies."
• "He was also in receipt of frequent remonstrances from the English and other Governments as to the iniquities of the slave-trade, for which he was primarily in no sense to blame."
• "The military appointments of President Davis have elicited strong remonstrances from a portion of the Richmond press, and the Examiner roundly asserts that the Confederacy is weary of the flagrant mismanagement of Mr. Davis's Administration."