Expatiate vs Expostulate - What's the difference?
expatiate | expostulate |
As verbs the difference between expatiate and expostulate is that expatiate is to range at large, or without restraint while expostulate is to protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct.
expatiate English
Verb
( expatiat)
To range at large, or without restraint.
* Alexander Pope
- Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies.
To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant.
*1851 ,
- Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here.
* Addison
- He expatiated on the inconveniences of trade.
* 2007 , Clive James, Cultural Amnesia (Picador 2007, p. 847)
*:“It can't fly,” he expatiated . “It can move forward only by hopping.”
(obsolete) To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
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expostulate English
Verb
( expostulat)
To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct.
* Jowett
- Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong.
* 1719,
- 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.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XI, ''The Abbot’s Ways
- […] 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.”
Synonyms
* challenge
* demur
* except
* inveigh
* kick
* object
* protest
* remonstrate
* squawk
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