Both Uses of
commend
in
Washington Square
- …here, as you might have been informed on good authority, that you had come into a world which appeared to offer a variety of sources of interest; it was here that your grandmother lived, in venerable solitude, and dispensed a hospitality which commended itself alike to the infant imagination and the infant palate; it was here that you took your first walks abroad, following the nursery-maid with unequal step and sniffing up the strange odour of the ailantus-trees which at that time…†
Chpt 3
- Mrs. Penniman, with a degree of tact that was as unusual as it was commendable, took the line of leaving her alone.†
Chpt 30 *
Definition:
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(commend as in: I commend your effort) praise or recommend