What does misrecommend mean?
Misrecommend means To recommend without good reason..
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To recommend without good reason..
He did not apologize for it, nor make it a handmaid to something else, nor attempt to prove its practical value by an appeal to commercial motives, nor, in short give any of the thousand bad reasons by which stupid people habitually misrecommend good things.
I think many shop executives misrecommend some of their helpers without adequate reasons.
But this observation does not seem of great interest to Hieronymus, who goes on to say that spiritually it relates to the task of writing books on the holy scriptures which will be wasted if it falls into the hands of stupid fools, who, in the perversity of their hearts, will misinterpret and misrecommend the wise man) .
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Misrecommend means To recommend without good reason..
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He did not apologize for it, nor make it a handmaid to something else, nor attempt to prove its practical value by an appeal to commercial motives, nor, in short give any of the thousand bad reasons by which stupid people habitually misrecommend good things.
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