NOUN | remonstrance | remonstrances | |
SYNO | expostulation | objection | remonstrance | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- He remained loyal to parliament during the 1648 naval revolt and in February 1649 signed remonstrance congratulating the army and the Commons for restoring liberty.
- The House of Commons formed a committee for grievances that compiled a remonstrance (complaint) against Strafford.
- The following is Trilochan’s remonstrance. He endeavoured to console her by telling her that her distress was the result of her sins.
- a remonstrance conveyed collusively by virtue of the fact that its targets are in the process of leaving the field".
- In 1317, Domhnall Ó Néill, the King of Tyrone, with the support of Edward's Irish allies sent a remonstrance to Pope John XXII asking him to revoke "Laudabiliter" and mentioning Edward as King of Ireland.
- Felix's first act was to repudiate the Henoticon. He also addressed a letter of remonstrance to Acacius. The latter proved refractory and sentence of deposition was passed against Acacius.
- Hong was a proponent of the New Text scholarship, and felt that political remonstrance was part of his Confucian duty, as many other philosophers of his time did.
- A remonstrance addressed to Iccius on his intention of giving up philosophy and of joining the expedition to Arabia Felix.
- As member for Colchester, Grimston sat in the Short Parliament of 1640, and he represented the same borough during the Long Parliament, However he was not allowed to take his seat, and with 97 others who were similarly treated he issued a remonstrance to the public.
- The "Seven Remonstrances" section (6th remonstrance, 《哀命》) of the c.
- He therefore wrote a remonstrance to put his side of the case in full: "Humble remonstrance et briefve déduction de Messire Charles Hovyne du Conseil d'Estat et chef-président du Conseil privé de Sa Majesté", printed in 1668 without specifying place or printer.
- South's ridicule of the Royal Society, in an oration at the dedication of the Sheldonian Theatre, July 1669, called forth a remonstrance from Wallis, addressed to Robert Boyle.
- 1871 saw Woodford as one of the signatories of a remonstrance against the Privy Council for upholding a conviction of an Anglican Vicar, John Purchas, for the way in which he celebrated communion.
- Hampden's nomination by Lord John Russell to the vacant see of Hereford in December 1847 was again the signal for organised opposition; and his consecration in March 1848 took place in spite of a remonstrance by many of the bishops, and the resistance of John Merewether, the Dean of Hereford, who voted against the election.
- Accused in 1702 of high treason before Chief Justice William Atwood, on the basis of a remonstrance signed by him and others, as libelous, he was sentenced to death; but after the death of the New York governor and the removal of Atwood on a corruption charge, the proceedings were annulled by an order in council, and he was reinstated in his property and honors.
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