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recommendatory

[ rek-uh-men-duh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

recommendatory

/ ˌrɛkəˈmɛndətərɪ; -trɪ /

1605–15; < Medieval Latin recommendāt ( us ) ( recommendation ) + -ory ¹

The giving of recommendatory letters is a subject of considerable practical interest.

The votes of the members were only recommendatory, not conclusive, the final sentence being reserved by the duke to himself.

Under that name, he has prefixed two recommendatory poems to the first and second parts of the Faerie queene.

On arrival of the first fleet of ships from England, several convicts brought out recommendatory letters from different friends.

He was to consider his instructions as recommendatory, not as peremptory.

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