commendatory

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A quick scroll through his timeline will mostly yield commendatory musings about various Amazon ventures or the executive’s space-exploration outfit, Blue Origin.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2017

A quick scroll through his timeline will mostly yield commendatory musings about various Amazon ventures or the executive’s space exploration outfit, Blue Origin.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2017

Kids' lives are crowded with trophies and awards--the computer-generated commendatory certificates blow through my house like ticker tape; they get underfoot and gather on the floor of the car.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bishop Brewster started a commendatory prayer but broke down; Bishop Wise finished it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said to Archbishop Tillotson who, reading to her, when she was upon her death-bed, the commendatory prayer in the office for the sick, was so overcome by grief that he was compelled to pause.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland