All 8 Uses of
commend
in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;
Scene 3.1 *commend = publicly express a favorable opinion
- Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest Some rare noteworthy object in thy travel: Wish me partaker in thy happiness When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger, If ever danger do environ thee, Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, For I will be thy headsman, Valentine.†
Scene 1.1
- To testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your letters yourself; and so, sir, I'll commend you to my master.†
Scene 1.1
- To-morrow, may it please you, Don Alphonso With other gentlemen of good esteem Are journeying to salute the emperor And to commend their service to his will.†
Scene 1.3
- Your friends are well, and have them much commended.†
Scene 2.4
- Under the colour of commending him, I have access my own love to prefer: But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.†
Scene 4.2
- When I protest true loyalty to her, She twits me with my falsehood to my friend; When to her beauty I commend my vows, She bids me think how I have been forsworn In breaking faith with Julia whom I lov'd; And notwithstanding all her sudden quips, The least whereof would quell a lover's hope, Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love The more it grows and fawneth on her still.†
Scene 4.2
- What is she, That all our swains commend her?†
Scene 4.2
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