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protestive

adj

Etymology

From protest + -ive.

  1. derived from prōtestor
  2. derived from protester
  3. suffixed as protestive — “protest + ive”

Definitions

  1. Expressing protest.

    • Acts include attempt to take, reach for peer's toy, offer-withdraw toy either without vocalization and with neutral affect, or with no more than a brief and mildly protestive vocalization and/or facial expression of frown or pucker.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA