remonstrance
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I'd be glad to see others take up the torch of remonstrance and dissent.
From Salon • Nov. 5, 2024
His order penalizing anyone who harbored Quakers provoked 31 residents of Flushing on Long Island — none of them Quakers themselves — to sign a remonstrance, a collective appeal to redress their grievance.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2018
Current law requires the signatures of 65 percent of parcel owners in a proposed annexation area to oppose an annexation via a remonstrance.
From Washington Times • Mar. 1, 2015
The scene builds to a remonstrance: “You made me mistrust my gut.”
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2012
They heard the gentle remonstrance of a kindly king with an erring but much-loved minister.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Scarlet Letter
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