Both Uses of
commend
in
Great Expectations
- "It would be much more commendable to be somebody else's enemy," said the gentleman; "far more natural."†
Chpt 11 *commendable = deserving of praisestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- I highly commended it, I think it was the smallest house I ever saw; with the queerest gothic windows (by far the greater part of them sham), and a gothic door almost too small to get in at.†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(commend as in: I commend her work) praise or recommend
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(2)
(commend as in: I commend her to your care) to entrust to another for future care