recommendatory

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

adjective

1. serving to recommend; recommending.
2. serving as or being a recommendation.

recommendatory

/ -trɪ; ˌrɛkəˈmɛndətərɪ /

adjective

1. intended to or serving to recommend

Word History and Origins

Origin of recommendatory¹

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

Example Sentences

Speaking this week to the Hill, Hoyer described it as a “recommendatory committee to the Energy and Commerce Committee and the environmental committees.”

From The New Yorker

Russia has used its veto to remove recommendatory references to ST and harm reduction from international policy documents, like those of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

From Slate

"Add a word of remembrance on my part to the sister, and tell bumpkin to supply himself with no end of letters, recommendatory and laudatory, to muzzle our Medical Board at Calcutta, and lots of light clothing, and all the torturing instruments he 'll need, and a large stock of good humor, for he'll be chaffed unmercifully all the voyage."

From Project Gutenberg

Thomas Walter, an Attorney at Law, came to America from Youghall, Ireland, about 1679, bringing a recommendatory letter to the churches in New England from a Congregational church in Youghall,—and by virtue thereof was admitted a member of the Second church, Boston, November 2, 1680.

From Project Gutenberg

Dr. Franklin has given me a pass, and recommendatory letter to the famous Mr. West.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• agreeable
• benign
• encouraging
• positive
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