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recommendatory

recommendatory adjective: of or pertaining to a recommendation.

Adjective

recommendatory (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a recommendation
    • The Reverend Dr. Wishart, principal of the college of Edinburgh, published some years ago a small edition of this incomparable treatise, with a recommendatory preface, equally pious, candid and judicious; an extract of which will therefore very properly conclude our preface.1757, Henry Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man, page vi
    • If it should be asked, what was my inducement to write this recommendatory address?1791, John Towers, “Introduction”, in Divine Poems and Essays on various subjects (Maria De Fleury), page x

Questions about recommendatory

What does recommendatory mean?
Recommendatory means of or pertaining to a recommendation.
What part of speech is recommendatory?
Recommendatory is an adjective.

Words near recommendatory in the dictionary

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

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