Expostulatory
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Expostulatory is an adjective meaning Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
Meaning
Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
Example Sentences
Carrados divined an exchange of private glances, expostulatory from the husband, playfully defiant on her part.
It is unquestionably a "Tendenzschrift," apologetic and expostulatory in tone, designed to defend and expound the writings and traditions of the Rabbis, whose "instructive parables and tales . . . are so many miniature paintings of the habits, manners, and modes of thinking, of an ancient people at a remote period of antiquity" ("Essay," London ed., 1826, p. 81).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include expiatory, expository, expulsionary, postulatory, excommunicative, exclamational.
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