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recommendatory

American  
[rek-uh-men-duh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˌrɛk əˈmɛn dəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /

adjective

  1. serving to recommend; recommending.

  2. serving as or being a recommendation.


recommendatory British  
/ -trɪ, ˌrɛkəˈmɛndətərɪ /

adjective

  1. intended to or serving to recommend

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of recommendatory

1605–15; < Medieval Latin recommendāt ( us ) ( see recommendation) + -ory 1

Example Sentences

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But the singer says he isn't through with the recommendatory sciences.

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 8, 2010

The tag of the acts of a new comedy! a prologue sent by a person of quality three copies of recommendatory verses! and two Greek mottos!

From Three Hours after Marriage by Arbuthnot, John

Now, veteran asylums have many things recommendatory about them, but from Greenwich and the Invalides downwards there is one especial vice that clings to them—they are haunts of everlasting complaint.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James

I 'm not the son of an old steward or family coachman, that I want to go about with a black pocket-book stuffed with recommendatory letters.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

In 1675, Molinos published a book entitled "Il Guida Spirituale," to which were subjoined recommendatory letters from several great personages.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

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