remonstrance

plural remonstrances

1. countableuncountableA remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, objection or protest.

   Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance, [...]

   1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LII, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book V, page 155

   4 more examples

   Moreover, you must remember, even as children, Marie was ever more resolute than myself; and now, how little would she heed remonstrance of mine!

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 151

   I have heard again and again, remonstrances have been addressed to me more than once, because of the condemnation which Democratic speakers so continually utter about the unnationality as well as the unconstitutionality of the Republican party.

   1858, Jefferson Davis, quoting Caleb Cushing, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, published 1881, page 551

   But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.

   1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

   In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake.

   2004 March 15, Perry Link, “China: A new postmortem on Tiananmen”, in Time