commendatory
Americanadjective
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serving to commend; approving; praising.
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holding a benefice in commendam.
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held in commendam.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of commendatory
1545–55; < Late Latin commendātōrius, equivalent to commendā ( re ) to commend + -tōrius -tory 1
Example Sentences
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A quick scroll through his timeline will mostly yield commendatory musings about various Amazon ventures or the executive’s space-exploration outfit, Blue Origin.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2017
A quick scroll through his timeline will mostly yield commendatory musings about various Amazon ventures or the executive’s space exploration outfit, Blue Origin.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2017
Last week they got their first minuscule recognition�a commendatory Army news release.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meantime commendatory letters, telegrams, telephone calls by the hundred poured into the Star's office.
From Time Magazine Archive
A number of commendatory poems are prefixed, and among others one from Evelyn, in which he acknowledges, that Creech had succeeded in the glorious enterprize in which he himself had failed.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
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