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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

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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

This is the strong recommendatory language of Morhof: Polyhist.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Attentions, civil, kind, and recommendatory, showered on Miss Hazel from all sides.

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan

In a recommendatory sonnet prefixed, by G. W. senior, it appears that Spenser was now in Ireland.

From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas

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

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