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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of commend.

Etymologies

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From commend +‎ -est, the archaic second-person singular tense suffix.

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Examples

  • “In sooth, my dear son, if thou takest refuge in the churches and helpest to clear away spiders and buzzing flies, and criest unto God like the young ravens, and commendest thyself to the eternal Creator, all will be well with thee, and that even if the whole world were full of wild malicious birds.”

    Household Tales 2003

  • "In sooth, my dear son, if thou takest refuge in the churches and helpest to clear away spiders and buzzing flies, and criest unto God like the young ravens, and commendest thyself to the eternal Creator, all will be well with thee, and that even if the whole world were full of wild malicious birds."

    Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm 1824

  • Whom commendest thou to us as shepherd to thy bereaven flock? whom shall we admonish to tread in those traces thy footsteps leave below? "

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Whom commendest thou to us as shepherd to thy bereaven flock? whom shall we admonish to tread in those traces thy footsteps leave below? "

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And he said, "What chief or what ruler is this, that thou commendest so highly, and sayest that he perished at Troy?

    The Adventures of Ulysses Charles Lamb 1804

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