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Definition of Complimenting
1. compliment [v] - See also: compliment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Complimenting
Literary usage of Complimenting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"The poet Moore, who never let slip an opportunity of complimenting the fair sex,
was in the present instance hardly kind to the husband. ..."
2. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1815)
"... and that the ringers of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, had a gratuity for complimenting
the royal ..."
3. Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (1894)
"... complimenting Erasmus on one of bis satire«, -says, "This book will you gain
more favor, and friendship ..."
4. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"A Festal Ode complimenting an Officer On dashed my four steeds, without halt,
without stay, Though toilsome and winding from Chow was the way. ..."
5. A Compendium of the Law of Nations: Founded on the Treaties and Customs of by Georg Friedrich Martens (1802)
"Of the Custom of complimenting Princes on their Way. WHEN a king or a prince only
passes through the territory of another, and sometimes, even when hi; ..."
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