commendable
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kəˈmɛndəbəl/
commendable
- Worthy of commendation; deserving praise#Noun|praise; admirable, creditable, or meritorious.
- circa 1600, The Merchant of Venice,Act I, scene I:
- LThanks,i' faith; for silence is only commendable/In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: Printed [by R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, OCLC 316392309 ↗, Act III, scene iv ↗:
- Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: {{...}
- circa 1600, The Merchant of Venice,Act I, scene I:
- German: anerkennenswert, empfehlenswert, lobenswert, löblich, rühmenswert, vorbildlich
- Russian: похва́льный
- Spanish: alabable, loable, encomiable, meritorio
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