Thankfulness
['θæŋkfulnəs]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gratitude (with a desire to acknowledge it), sense of obligation, feeling of obligation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Gratitude, gratefulness
ANT:Thanklessness, ingratitude
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Examples
- Little did my poor aunt imagine what a gush of devout thankfulness thrilled through me as she approached the close of her melancholy story. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- A look of thankfulness and triumph lights the worn old face. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I opened my grateful heart to heaven in thankfulness for its providence to me and its care of me, and fell asleep. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Bumble raised his eyes piously to the ceiling in thankfulness; and, bringing them down again to the brim of the cup, lifted it to his nose. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Twill be the sweetest work as ever I ha done, that puts it in my power t' acknowledge once more my lastin thankfulness for this present action. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- To mercy, pity, peace, and love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight, Return their thankfulness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My first thought was one of great thankfulness that I had never breathed this last baffled hope to Joe. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But with what ardent thankfulness and love I say this, I may call Heaven to witness! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Kneeling down and pouring out her thankfulness with uplifted hands, her thanks were for her father. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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