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PROTESTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A strong declaration of protest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("protestation" is a kind of...):
declaration (a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written))
Derivation:
protest (utter words of protest)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A formal and solemn declaration of objection
Example:
the many protestations did not stay the execution
Synonyms:
protest; protestation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("protestation" is a kind of...):
objection (the speech act of objecting)
Derivation:
protest (affirm or avow formally or solemnly)
Context examples:
Opening the window, I walked in upon them; liberated Celine from my protection; gave her notice to vacate her hotel; offered her a purse for immediate exigencies; disregarded screams, hysterics, prayers, protestations, convulsions; made an appointment with the vicomte for a meeting at the Bois de Boulogne.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At last, after an agony of supplication and protestation, I got Dora to look at me, with a horrified expression of face, which I gradually soothed until it was only loving, and her soft, pretty cheek was lying against mine.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Here Fanny interposed, however, with anxious protestations of her own equal ignorance; she had never played the game nor seen it played in her life; and Lady Bertram felt a moment's indecision again; but upon everybody's assuring her that nothing could be so easy, that it was the easiest game on the cards, and Henry Crawford's stepping forward with a most earnest request to be allowed to sit between her ladyship and Miss Price, and teach them both, it was so settled; and Sir Thomas, Mrs. Norris, and Dr. and Mrs. Grant being seated at the table of prime intellectual state and dignity, the remaining six, under Miss Crawford's direction, were arranged round the other.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Edmund saw it all, and saw Fanny so determined not to see it, as to make it clear that the voice was enough to convey the full meaning of the protestation; and such a quick consciousness of compliment, such a ready comprehension of a hint, he thought, was rather favourable than not.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
While he spoke, Maria was looking apprehensively round at Edmund in full expectation that he must oppose such an enlargement of the plan as this: so contrary to all their first protestations; but Edmund said nothing.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
