commendation

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
commend/kəˈmend/

▶verb

• 1 praise formally or officially.

• 2 present as suitable or good; recommend.

• 3 (commend someone/thing to) archaic or formal entrust someone or something to.

  ■ (commend someone to) pass on someone's good wishes to.

– derivatives
commendation noun,
commendatory adjective.

– origin ME: from L. commendare, from com- (expressing intensive force) + mandare ‘commit, entrust’.