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compliment
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Word definitions for compliment in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compliment \Com"pli*ment\, v. i. To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect. I make the interlocutors, upon occasion, compliment with one another. --Boyle.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A compliment is an expression of praise, congratulation or encouragement. Compliment may also refer to: Compliment, a formalized respectful action paid to a superior, such as saluting an officer in the armed forces Compliment, a typeface by Ludwig & Mayer ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"An act, or expression of civility, usually understood to include some hypocrisy, and to mean less than it declares" [Johnson], 1570s, complement , via French compliment (17c.), from Italian complimento "expression of respect and civility," from Vulgar ...
Usage examples of compliment.
Indeed, in remarks made later before the Navy Board, he would pay Adams as high a compliment as he knew.
Adams already knew of his friendship, Madison advised, and were Adams to prove a failure as President, such compliments and confidence in him as Jefferson had put in writing could prove politically embarrassing.
She had been complimented by Mother Aglee herself on the clarity of her report on the ill-fated expedition to the sunside of First Planet.
The cosmopolitan Antiochenes returned the compliment, regarding Romans as mere duffers in depravity, philistines in art, but capable in war and government, and consequently to be feared, if not respected.
To each was assigned, by the public, a guard, and a council of a hundred persons, and the first of the princes appears to have enjoyed a preeminence of rank and honor which sometimes tempted the Romans to compliment him with the regal title.
Lord Belton uttered his compliment in the same smooth tone Lord Kilcairn used when he wished to be charming.
He complimented him on his uniform, and then, at last, Berthon brought him the paper.
He only spoke once, to compliment Blackburn on the Old Milwaukee beer in the refrigerator.
She was high-spirited, even-tempered, and had a natural art which did not allow her to seem to understand too flattering a compliment, or a joke which passed in any way the bounds of propriety.
As you pass through the cardroom, please give my compliments to Rusty and tell him to drag his lazy carcass in here.
It was poked through the crack of the cardroom door, gripped by an intruder who had gained that wedge while Stan and Marcia had been exchanging ill-meant compliments.
Canada Lady Cartier and my daughters have asked me not to forget to present to you and Lady Watkin their best wishes and kindest regards, to remember them kindly to your son, and to offer their compliments to Miss Watkin, in the hope of making her acquaintance hereafter.
Kroft may have been trying to pay us a compliment, but his categorization of our marriage was so off target that Bill was incredulous.
She glanced up and smiled at him but she did not wave him to approach, and he was forced to stand against the wood-paneled walls with the dozen or so other men who had risen early to pay their compliments and found that Cecil had got in first.
In the coldest tone of voice I could dredge up, I complimented his performance and said I was done with him now.