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verb (used without object), -lat·ed, -lat·ing.
to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate: His father expostulated with him about the evils of gambling.
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Expostulatingly
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expostulate
1530s, "to demand, to claim," from L. expostulatus, pp. of expostulare "to demand urgently, remonstrate," from ex- intensive prefix + postulare "to demand." Friendlier sense is first recorded in English 1570s. Related: Expostulated; expostulating.
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