"recommendatory" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1757, Henry Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man, page vi:",
          "text": "The Reverend Dr. Wishart, principal of the college of Edinburgh, published some years ago a small edition of this incomparable treatise, with a recommendatory preface, equally pious, candid and judicious; an extract of which will therefore very properly conclude our preface.",
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          "ref": "1791, John Towers, “Introduction”, in Divine Poems and Essays on various subjects (Maria De Fleury), page x:",
          "text": "If it should be asked, what was my inducement to write this recommendatory address?",
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          "ref": "1898, Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Colorado, page 118:",
          "text": "That while it was optional with the Lodge as to whether or not it would grant a recommendatory certificate with a dimit, it is equally optional with the member applying for dimit whether or not he will accept a dimit without a recommendatory certificate.",
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          "ref": "2014, Annegret Flohr, Self-Regulation and Legalization:",
          "text": "Since it is now the CAO who determines when compliance has been reached, its findings can no longer be considered merely recommendatory.",
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to a recommendation",
          "word": "recommandatoire"
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          "ref": "1791, John Towers, “Introduction”, in Divine Poems and Essays on various subjects (Maria De Fleury), page x:",
          "text": "If it should be asked, what was my inducement to write this recommendatory address?",
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          "ref": "1898, Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Colorado, page 118:",
          "text": "That while it was optional with the Lodge as to whether or not it would grant a recommendatory certificate with a dimit, it is equally optional with the member applying for dimit whether or not he will accept a dimit without a recommendatory certificate.",
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      "sense": "of or pertaining to a recommendation",
      "word": "recommandatoire"
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