Meanings
adjectiveprotestive (not comparable)
- not comparableExpressing protest.
Acts include attempt to take, reach for peer's toy, offer-withdraw toy either without vocalization and with neutral affect, or with no more than a brief and mildly protestive vocalization and/or facial expression of frown or pucker.
1981, Wanda C. Bronson, Toddlers' Behaviors with Agemates
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