"Remonstrant" is a word in ENGLISH
Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory;
urging reasons in opposition to something.
One who remonstrates
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.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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