Both Uses of
commend
in
Middlemarch
- Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable.†
Chpt 6 *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.
- Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.†
Chpt 5
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