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Commend vs Cry_up - What's the difference?

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Commend is a related term of cry_up.


As verbs the difference between commend and cry_up

is that commend is to congratulate or reward while cry_up is to extol, praise.

As a noun commend

is (obsolete) commendation; praise.

commend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To congratulate or reward.
  • To praise or acclaim.
  • * Dryden
  • Historians commend Alexander for weeping when he read the actions of Achilles.
  • To entrust or commit to the care of someone else.
  • * Bible, Luke xxiii. 46
  • Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
  • To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and goodwill.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Commend me to my brother.
  • To recommend.
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • Among the objects of knowledge, two especially commend themselves to our contemplation.
  • * Bible, Romans xvi. 1
  • I commend unto you Phoebe our sister.
  • To force in a mental way.
  • See also

    * suggest * consider * approval

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) commendation; praise
  • * Shakespeare
  • Speak in his just commend .
  • (obsolete, in the plural) compliments; greetings
  • * Howell
  • Hearty commends and much endeared love to you.

    cry_up

    English

    Verb

  • To extol, praise.
  • * 1730 , Matthew Tindal,
  • Though we cry up the great advantage we have above all other animals, in being capable of religion, yet those animals, we despise for want of it, herd most socially together; except such carnivorous creatures which necessity separates.
  • * 1837 , Ralph Waldo Emerson,
  • Some great decorum, some fetish of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down.