protestation

"Very well, then, let that pass," is the answer of his enemies to his friends when that passionate protestation is read.

Edgar repeated the protestation, that he had been hurried on by passion, and spoke without meaning.

Andrew Balfour, the minister of Kirknewton, signed the protestation for the Kirk in 1617, and was imprisoned for it.

Generally, these tremendous blows are a protestation against a denial on the part of one of the sitters.

His protestation was answered by his transfer to the frozen region of the province of Yakutsk in Eastern Siberia!