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expostulate
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ex·pos·tu·late  (k-spsch-lt)
intr.v. ex·pos·tu·lat·ed, ex·pos·tu·lat·ing, ex·pos·tu·lates
To reason earnestly with someone in an effort to dissuade or correct; remonstrate. See Synonyms at object.
[Latin expostulre, expostult- : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + postulre, to demand; see prek- in Indo-European roots.]
ex·postu·lation n.
ex·postu·lator n.
ex·postu·la·tory (-l-tôr, -tr), ex·postu·lative adj.
expostulate
Verb
[-lating, -lated] expostulate with to reason or argue with, esp. in order to dissuade or as a protest [Latin expostulare to require]
expostulation n
expostulatory adj
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Verb1.expostulate - reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion
argue, reason - present reasons and arguments
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Just as Du Bois was able to establish, in The Souls of Black Folk, that black folk did in fact have souls, at a time when Charles Carroll (The Negro a Beast [19001), Thomas Dixon (The Leopard's Spots [1902]), and other racist expostulators on Negro "retrogression" were insisting otherwise, so Handy served as an effective propagandist for a widespread current of African-American feeling--imprisoning despair backed with releasing euphoria--that the minstrel mask had previously hidden.
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