All 6 Uses
commend
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Henry IV, Part 2
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- Commend me to my cousin Westmoreland.
Scene 1.2 *commend = recommend (express a favorable opinion of)
- I commend me to thee, I commend thee, and I leave thee.†
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- I commend me to thee, I commend thee, and I leave thee.†
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- My captain, sir, commends him to you; my captain, Sir John Falstaff, a tall gentleman, by heaven, and a most gallant leader.†
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- it is good; yea, indeed, is it: good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable.†
Scene 3.2commendable = 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.
- you can do it, sir; you can do it: I commend you well.†
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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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)