Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A staying, tarrying, or sojourning: as, “his commoration among them,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of staying or residing in a place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of
staying orresiding somewhere.
Etymologies
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Latin commoratio.
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Examples
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I'd really like to see a prize for the best portrait of somebody who's worthy of commoration but who is actually just an ordinary person.
Making a Mark 2009
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