commendable

From Middle French commendable, from Latin commendabilis, from commendare (“to commend, intrust to”), from com- + mandare (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”).

commendable (comparative more commendable, superlative most commendable)

1. Worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable, or meritorious.
   • circa 1600, The Merchant of Venice,Act I, scene I:

     LThanks,i' faith; for silence is only commendable/In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.

   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: Printed [by R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, OCLC 316392309, Act III, scene iv:

     Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]

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• commendable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• commendable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• commendable at OneLook Dictionary Search