Definition of Commendation

Comfort

COMMENDATION noun

	The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Commerce

Regular definition:

COMMENDATION:
?k?men?de???n n. 1 an act of commending or recommending (esp. a person to another's favour). 2 praise. [ME f. OF f. L commendatio (as COMMEND)]

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