different between expostulatory vs expostulator

English

expostulate +? -ory

expostulatory (comparative more expostulatory, superlative most expostulatory)

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).

expostulator (plural expostulators)

expostul?tor

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