Commend vs Debt - What's the difference?
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To congratulate or reward.
To praise or acclaim.
* Dryden
To entrust or commit to the care of someone else.
* Bible, Luke xxiii. 46
To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and goodwill.
* Shakespeare
To recommend.
* Sir M. Hale
* Bible, Romans xvi. 1
To force in a mental way.
(obsolete) commendation; praise
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, in the plural) compliments; greetings
* Howell
An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
* 1589 , (William Shakespeare), Henry IV, Part I , act 1, sc. 3,
* 1850 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), (The Scarlet Letter) , ch. 14,
The state or condition of owing something to another.
Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
* 1919 , (Upton Sinclair), Jimmie Higgins , ch. 15,
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (legal) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
As nouns the difference between commend and debt
is that commend is (obsolete) commendation; praise while debt is an action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.As a verb commend
is to congratulate or reward.commend
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Verb
(en verb)- Historians commend Alexander for weeping when he read the actions of Achilles.
- Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
- Commend me to my brother.
- Among the objects of knowledge, two especially commend themselves to our contemplation.
- I commend unto you Phoebe our sister.
See also
* suggest * consider * approvalNoun
(en noun)- Speak in his just commend .
- Hearty commends and much endeared love to you.
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(wikipedia debt)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt
- Of this proud king, who studies day and night
- To answer all the debt he owes to you
- Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
- This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
- Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- (Burrill)