Protestation vs Demonstration - What's the difference?
protestation | demonstration |
a formal solemn objection or other declaration
* Latimer
(legal, historical) A declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.
The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
An event at which something will be demonstrated.
A public display of group opinion.
A show of military force.
A mathematical proof.
* , s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
As nouns the difference between protestation and demonstration
is that protestation is a formal solemn objection or other declaration while demonstration is demonstration (act of showing and explaining).protestation
English
Noun
(en noun)- The protestation of our faith.
Anagrams
* ----demonstration
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- He read the proposition. So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.