Definitions
express approbation of
Word origin
From Middle English commenden, from Old French comender, from Latin commendō (“commend, entrust to, commit, recommend”), from com- + mandō (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dō (“to put”). Doublet of command.
Used in a sentence
“The schoolboy was commended for raising the alarm about the burning building.”
“The new law has little to commend it: it even worsens the legal certainty of the nation.”
“Segrais on this Subject of a Heroe's ſhedding Tears, obſerves that Hiſtorians commend Alexander for weeping, when he read the mighty Actions of Achilles.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Praise formally”7 letters
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