remonstrance
noun/rɪˈmɒnstrəns/
/rɪˈmɑːnstrəns/
[countable, uncountable] (formal)- a protest or complaintWord Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘evidence’): from Old French, or from medieval Latin remonstrantia, from remonstrare ‘demonstrate, show’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + monstrare ‘to show’.
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