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recommendable, a.|rɛkəˈmɛndəb(ə)l|
[f. recommend v.1 + -able.]
That may be recommended, worthy of praise. Also const. to.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 19 A Right recommendable thing in heuen and in erthe is a true tunge. 1602T. Fitzherbert Apol. 6 The honorable cours of lyf he hath led..doth make him no lesse recomendable for true Christian pietie and vertue then for wisdome and valour. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox i. 12 All the recommendable qualities and exercise requisite for a Gentlewoman of such Extraction. a1734North Lives (1826) II. 217 The matchless pattern of his most recommendable character and successes. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 662 There is a work..recommendable as well to those who have, as those who have not done any good work before. 1832Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. V. 407 The Wise had found such Loyalty still practicable, and recommendable. 1888H. S. Merriman Phantom Fut. II. x. 146 This method is scarcely recommendable to young men of impressionable hearts.
Hence recommendaˈbility, recoˈmmendableness, recoˈmmendably adv.
1611Cotgr., Recommendablement, recommendably,..praise-worthily. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. x. iii. §4 The fourth and last Rule or Measure of opinions is, The Recommendableness of our Religion to those which are without. 1796Ld. St. Helens in Bentham's Wks. (1843) X. 319 Whether your quality of French citizen, instead of adding to your recommendability [etc.]. |