Definition of "remonstrant" []

• Characterized by remonstrance; expostulatory. (adjective)
• One that remonstrates. (noun)
• One of the Dutch Arminians who, in 1610, formally stated the grounds of their dissent from strict Calvinism. (noun)

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• ""The reader should know," writes Henry Kissinger in his lengthy coronation of John Lewis Gaddis's "magisterial" biography of the American foreign-policy seer and remonstrant George Kennan in the November 13 New York Times Book Review, "that for the past decade, I have occasionally met with the students of the Grand Strategy seminar John Gaddis conducts at Yale and that we encounter each other on social occasions from time to time.""
• "Continuing to chuckle when his laugh is over, as though remonstrant with himself on his drinking powers, he rolls to the door and unlocks it."
• "‘What CAN be your antipathy to Baker Street?’ asks some fair remonstrant, evidently writing from that quarter."