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/kˌɑməndˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Commendation n.

The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation. "Need we... epistles of commendation?" "By the commendation of the great officers."

That which is the ground of approbation or praise. "Good nature is the most godlike commendation of a man."

pl. A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting. (Obs.) "Hark you, Margaret; No princely commendations to my king?"

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"Commendation" Quotes from Famous Books

... novelty, which of course was wanting in the succeeding papers of similar character. The criticisms upon the successive numbers as they came out were various, but generally encouraging. Some were more than encouraging; very high-colored in their phrases of commendation. When the papers were brought together in a volume their success was beyond my expectations. Up to the present time the "Autocrat" has maintained its position. An immortality of a whole generation is more than most ...

— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... more from loss of blood than from the flesh wound in his shoulder, which was not a serious affair; and to Desmond's broken wrist had been added a disfiguring slash across his cheek. No doubt orders and commendation awaited them: but their elation at the prospect was hushed by the very present shadow of death. For the soldier, inured as he is, does not count death a little thing. He cannot, any more than the rest of us, 'go out of the warm sunshine easily.' And the thought of Montague's wife and children, ...

— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver

... aroused that some part at least of my share in the night's doing had leaked out. The Gazette had published a special edition, in which it hailed the advent of freedom, and, while lauding McGregor to the skies, bestowed a warm commendation on the "noble Englishman who, with a native love of liberty, had taken on himself the burden of Aureataland in her hour of travail." The metaphor struck me as inappropriate, but the sentiment was most ...

— A Man of Mark • Anthony Hope

... among those peace-makers which, by following the example of that Man who is our peace, come to be called "the children of God." Very worthily might he be called an Irenaeus as being all for peace; and the commendation which Epiphanius gives unto the ancient of that name, did belong unto our Eliot; he was "a most blessed and a most holy man." He disliked all sorts of bravery; but yet with an ingenious note upon the Greek word in Col. iii. 15, he propounded, "that peace might ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various

... thing played badly; indeed, she played surprisingly well for her age, and Barty was sincere in his warm commendation of her talent. ...

— The Martian • George Du Maurier

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