Definition of "complimenting" [complimenting]

• Present participle of compliment. (verb)

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• "I spoke to her in French, complimenting her on the appearance of the place."
• "This was done with the idea of complimenting him, but the doctor had held himself aloof from all the learned bodies — belonging, as he did, to the church militant and not to the church polemical."
• "Apostle Paul described as complimenting these Athenians -- these pagan worshippers -- on their "carefulness in religion.""