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  • English Word Remonstrant Definition One who remonstrates
  • English Word Remonstrant Definition one of the Arminians who remonstrated against the attacks of the Calvinists in 1610, but were subsequently condemned by the decisions of the Synod of Dort in 1618. See Arminian.
  • English Word Remonstrantly Definition In a remonstrant manner.
  • English Word Remonstrate Definition To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
  • English Word Remonstrate Definition To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation.
  • English Word Remonstrated Definition of Remonstrate
  • English Word Remonstrating Definition of Remonstrate
  • English Word Remonstration Definition The act of remonstrating; remonstrance.
  • English Word Remonstrative Definition Having the character of a remonstrance; expressing remonstrance.
  • English Word Remonstrator Definition One who remonstrates; a remonsrant.
  • English Word Remontant Definition Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example.
  • English Word Remontoir Definition See under Escapement.
  • English Word Remora Definition Delay; obstacle; hindrance.
  • English Word Remora Definition Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.
  • English Word Remora Definition An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.
  • English Word Remorate Definition To hinder; to delay.
  • English Word Remord Definition To excite to remorse; to rebuke.
  • English Word Remord Definition To feel remorse.
  • English Word Remordency Definition Remorse; compunction; compassion.
  • English Word Remorse Definition The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life.
  • English Word Remorse Definition Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.
  • English Word Remorsed Definition Feeling remorse.
  • English Word Remorseful Definition Full of remorse.
  • English Word Remorseful Definition Compassionate; feeling tenderly.
  • English Word Remorseful Definition Exciting pity; pitiable.
  • English Word Remorseless Definition Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless.
  • English Word Remote Definition Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
  • English Word Remote Definition Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
  • English Word Remote Definition Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
  • English Word Remote Definition Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.