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Protestation

noun

A formal and solemn declaration of objection. Synonym: protest. "The senator rose to register his protest" , "The many protestations did not stay the execution"

A strong declaration of protest.

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"Protestation" Quotes from Famous Books

... not henceforth trouble me; Here is a coile with protestation: Goe, get you gone: and let the papers lye: You would be fingring ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... resident, thus menaced, waited on His Highness and insisted that the treaty of Chunar should be carried into full and immediate effect. Asaph-ul-Dowlah yielded, making at the same time a solemn protestation that he yielded to compulsion. The lands were resumed; but the treasure was not so easily obtained. It was necessary to use violence. A body of the Company's troops marched to Fyzabad, and forced the gates of the palace. The Princesses were confined to their own apartments. But ...

— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... book, I doubted at first, and for a long continuance, whether thou couldst have been serious; and whether it were not rather a satire on those busy-bodies who are incessantly intermeddling in other people's affairs. It was only on the protestation of thy intimate friends that I believed thee to have written it in earnest. As for thy question, it is idle to stoop and pick out absurdities from a mass of inconsistency and injustice; but another and another I could throw in, and another ...

— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor

... my protestation Against thy strength, Distance, and length: Do what thou canst for alteration: For hearts of truest mettle Absence doth join, and Time ...

— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various

... of these words, and sought to displace them in their possible evil influence on his future by some assurance more cheerful and confident. With this view he often earnestly beset her, but could secure nothing more pleasing than a reference to the will of her grandfather and a protestation to abide by ...

— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock

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