Definition of "remonstration" []

• Protest, objection, disapproving pleading, or an act thereof. (noun)

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• "Yet not a word of remonstration form the President nor his Energy Secretary Steven Chu holding OPEC's production restraints accountable for today's extortionary high oil prices."
• "Actually, the Mexican Congress has very recently proposed legalization of drugs but received a very swift and stern remonstration from the Bush administration and the idea was dropped."
• "And then in zaps the chorus, a remonstration of sorts, or a call to arms: "Life is just a precious minute baby," it yells."