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recommendatives

recommendatives is the plural of recommendative.

Meaning of recommendative

Noun

recommendative (plural recommendatives)

  1. (obsolete) That which recommends; a recommendation.
    • If our English youth were trained up a great deal more, than they are at present, in the noble art of oratory, and better instructed in the rules and laws of speaking and action, the ornament and recommendative of all discourse; why might they not become as good speakers, as ever Greece and Rome...1727, The Art of Speaking in Publick, page 15

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Questions about recommendatives

What is recommendatives the plural of?
Recommendatives is the plural of recommendative.

Words near recommendatives in the dictionary

  1. recommendably
  2. recommendary
  3. recommendation
  4. recommendations
  5. recommendative
  6. recommendatives
  7. recommendatory
  8. recommended
  9. recommendee
  10. recommendees
  11. recommender

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