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/rˌɛkəməndˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Recommendation n.

The act of recommending.

That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations.

The state of being recommended; esteem. (R.) "The burying of the dead... hath always been had in an extraordinary recommendation amongst the ancient."

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Etymology of 'Recommendation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Recommendation" Quotes from Famous Books

... Williams and Hall Stevenson being mostly mere pornography—could hardly have managed such a piece as "Le Sot Chevalier"—a riotously "improper" but excessively funny example—without running the risk of losing that recommendation of being "a lady's book" with which Johnson rather capriciously tempered his more general undervaluation. Sometimes, on the other hand, the joke is trivial enough, as in the English-French word-play of anel for agnel (or -neau), ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... which spring from them, not in the use and advantage which they secure, but in the disposition of mind, that is, the maxims of the will which are ready to manifest themselves in such actions, even though they should not have the desired effect. These actions also need no recommendation from any subjective taste or sentiment, that they may be looked on with immediate favour and satisfaction: they need no immediate propension or feeling for them; they exhibit the will that performs them as an object of an immediate respect, and nothing but reason is required ...

— Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals • Immanuel Kant

... under your recommendation, and it is to you that I owe the cordiality of his reception. I do not thank you (of course) but you can tell him that I was touched by his kind reception (and stimulate his zeal if you ...

— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert

... Helene Grandjean's maid-servant. She was an honest country girl who had been brought to Paris by Abbe Jouve on the recommendation of a village priest, in whose house she had been brought up. She served her mistress faithfully, and ruled Zephyrin Lacour, her sweetheart, with a hand ...

— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson

... very much alive—see, he comes yonder now. Faith, he fought Jules Lescalles knife to knife, and ended the career of that renegade. Is that not a recommendation, M. de Tonty?" ...

— Beyond the Frontier • Randall Parrish

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