Third-person singular present tense of expostulate; currently expresses disagreement or protest through earnest reasoning.
Regular present-tense conjugation of expostulate from Latin expostulare, maintaining the root form with -s ending for third person singular.
The phrase 'he expostulates against' was common in 18th-century literature as a more sophisticated alternative to simply saying someone 'complained' or 'objected.'
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