different between expostulation vs expostulatory

English

Etymology

From Latin expostul?ti?nem, accusative singular of expostul?ti? (“complaint, expostulation”), from expostul? (“demand, expostulate”), from ex (“out of, from”) + postul? (“demand or claim”). See expostulate.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

expostulation (countable and uncountable, plural expostulations)

1. The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.

Related terms

• demur
• exception
• objection
• protest, protestation
• remonstrance, remonstration
• squawk, kick

English

Etymology

expostulate +? -ory

Adjective

expostulatory (comparative more expostulatory, superlative most expostulatory)

1. Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
   • 1917, George Alexander Kohut, preface to Hebrew tales; selected and translated from the writings of the ancient Hebrew sages, p. 13:

     It is unquestionably a "Tendenzschrift," apologetic and expostulatory in tone, designed to defend and expound the writings and traditions of the Rabbis, whose "instructive parables and tales . . . are so many miniature paintings of the habits, manners, and modes of thinking, of an ancient people at a remote period of antiquity" ("Essay," London ed., 1826, p. 81).