All 3 Uses
commend
in
Much Ado About Nothing
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- such carping is not commendable.
Scene 3.1 *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.
- In the meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to Leonato's: commend me to him and tell him I will not fail him at supper; for indeed he hath made great preparation.†
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- No; not to be so odd, and from all fashions, As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable.†
Scene 3.1commendable = 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.
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)