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  • verb Present participle of indorse.

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Examples

  • MADAM, – In acknowledging the receipt of your note of the twenty-sixth of April, it affords me much pleasure to state that I do not hesitate to concur with Gen.O. O. Howard in indorsing and commending you to the favor and consideration of the philanthropic people of the country.

    Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims 1883

  • He has done allot of things for the so-called greater good, like indorsing bill's with 1500 pages not even read or understood.

    Obama has done nothin 2009

  • Complaine about unemployment and then do nothing to help a typical repo plan No No No hey I love that ol palin is indorsing candidates.

    House approves $6 billion 'cash for caulkers' 2010

  • When I pressed on and told her of my conversations with house cleaners of several cities indorsing this as truth, her face smited with disapproval and quickly said, “How can someone possibly exist on such a shameful wage?”

    A decent wage. 2007

  • It is usually possible for the wise mother to turn her fire upon the child's own error without outraging the childish sense of justice by indorsing something which does not really deserve indorsement.

    Vocational Guidance for Girls Marguerite Stockman Dickson

  • But the kind of liability incurred, whether that of indorser, original promisor, or surety, by indorsing a note or guarantying payment, is not the same in all the states.

    The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. Andrew W. Young

  • For when opportunistic reformers opposed to the Socialist movement go as far as the Hearst papers in indorsing "State Socialist" reforms, what hope would there be for Socialists to gain the public ear if they went scarcely farther, either as regards the practical measures they propose or the phrases they employ?

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

  • Resolutions were adopted indorsing the platforms of the last state and national conventions, declaring a belief in the doctrine of protection to labor and American industries, and indorsing the wisdom of the Republican party in continuing the advocacy of the protective tariff.

    Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

  • Kansas, Oklahoma, California, or Oregon in verbally indorsing radical reform measures, and also of Mr. Roosevelt, who occasionally has gone almost as far.

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

  • After training his singers, he started with them on their journey, stopping in Cincinnati and in Oberlin where they were welcomed by the first National Congregational Council; thence eastward, scarcely paying expenses, until they reached Brooklyn, where Henry Ward Beecher gave them an audience completely packing his great church, thus indorsing them for their future career.

    The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 1, January, 1896 Various

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