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Remonstrance vs Declaration - What's the difference?

remonstrance | declaration |

As nouns the difference between remonstrance and declaration

is that remonstrance is a remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection while declaration is a written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.

remonstrance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection.
  • *
  • Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
  • * 2004 , (Perry Link), " China: A new postmortem on Tiananmen," , 15 March:
  • In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake.

    declaration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.
  • A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
  • The act or process of declaring.
  • (cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
  • (legal) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff’s cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
  • (computing) The specification of a variable's type
  • Quotations

    * 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

    Synonyms

    * (written or oral indication) avowal, notice, statement * (list of items for legal purposes) notice, statement * (act or process of declaring) notice

    See also

    * complaint * statutory * statutory declaration