"expostulatory" meaning in English

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      "form": "more expostulatory",
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          "ref": "1917, George Alexander Kohut, preface to Hebrew tales; selected and translated from the writings of the ancient Hebrew sages, p. 13",
          "text": "It is unquestionably a \"Tendenzschrift,\" apologetic and expostulatory in tone, designed to defend and expound the writings and traditions of the Rabbis, whose \"instructive parables and tales . . . are so many miniature paintings of the habits, manners, and modes of thinking, of an ancient people at a remote period of antiquity\" (\"Essay,\" London ed., 1826, p. 81)."
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        "Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation."
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