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Definition of Commenders
1. commender [n] - See also: commender
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commenders
Literary usage of Commenders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of S. Augustine by Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey (1838)
"And whence do I know, and14' whence do I confidently confess unto Thee, that I
had loved him more for the love of his commenders, than for the very things ..."
2. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"And whence do I know, and whence do I confidently confess unto Thee, that I had
loved him more for the love of his commenders, than for the very things for ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"And whence do I know, and whence do I confidently confess unto Thee, that I had
loved him more for the love of his commenders, than for the very things for ..."
4. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... Poeme to haue few commenders, for neyther doe common dispositions keepe fitte
or plausible consort with ..."
5. Contemplations, Moral and Divine by Matthew Hale, Caleb Sprague Henry (1835)
"... it is a sign your reputation is small and sinking, if your own tongues must
be your flatterers or commenders ; and it is a fulsome and unpleasing thing ..."
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