Contend vs Expostulate - What's the difference?
contend | expostulate | Related terms |
to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
* Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
* Shakespeare
to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
* Dryden
to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
* John Locke
* Dr H. More
To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct.
* Jowett
* 1719,
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XI, ''The Abbot’s Ways
Contend is a related term of expostulate.
As verbs the difference between contend and expostulate
is that contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight while expostulate is to protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct.contend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
- For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
- You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
- The question which our author would contend for.
- Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
Synonyms
* struggle, fight, combat, vie, strive, oppose, emulate, contest, litigate, dispute, debateExternal links
* *expostulate
English
Verb
(expostulat)- Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong.
- The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life.
- […] he affectionately loved many persons to whom he never or hardly ever shewed a countenance of love. Once on my venturing to expostulate with him on the subject, he reminded me of Solomon: “Many sons I have; it is not fit that I should smile on them.”