Both Uses of
commend
in
Middlemarch
- Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.†
Chpt 5
- Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable.†
Chpt 6 *
Definition:
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(commend as in: I commend your effort) praise or recommend