Meaning of Compliment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.
2. Complimentary language; courtesy, flattery.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“pay someone a compliment”

“[…] I met him With customary compliment; when he, Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and So leaves me to consider what is breeding That changeth thus his manners.”

“[...] what honour that, but tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies, Outlandish flatteries?”

“Virtue indeed meets many a rhiming friend, And many a compliment politely penn’d,”

“He told the Captain, He was heartily sorry for his Misfortunes; tho’ in my Opinion that was nothing but a Compliment: For, as I found afterwards, he was more brutish, and dishonest, than most of the other Kings on the Island […]”

“This accomplished man condescended to think of a young girl, and take the pains to talk to her, not with absurd compliment, but with an appeal to her understanding, and sometimes with instructive correction.”

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