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protestive

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Etymology

From protest +‎ -ive.

Adjective

protestive (not comparable)

  1. Expressing protest.
    • 1981, Wanda C. Bronson, Toddlers' Behaviors with Agemates:
      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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