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adjective

Thankful adj.

Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy. (R.) "Ladies, look here; this is the thankful glass That mends the looker's eyes; this is the well That washes what it shows."

Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful. "Be thankful unto him, and bless his name."

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Etymology of 'Thankful'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thankful" Quotes from Famous Books

... represent to the judges, most respectfully, that they, as honourable judges, and as upright citizens, ought to see that the administration of justice in this country is above suspicion. I have nothing more to say with regard to the trial; but I would be thankful to the court for permission to say a few words ...

— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny

... everything. Indeed, I suspect, without him we should have managed but badly. Whenever our spirits flagged, he restored them by his resignation and cheerfulness; and he reminded us that although we might think our fate a hard one, we should be most thankful that we had escaped with our lives from the hands of such bloodthirsty miscreants ...

— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston

... and now he was thankful for his restraint of the night before. He ate the rest of the food in his pockets ...

— The Texan Star - The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty • Joseph A. Altsheler

... last, when she couldn't do anything more and 'ad quieted down a bit, he told 'er that it was on'y a case of a broken leg, thinking that 'er joy would be so great that she wouldn't think anything of that. He 'ad to tell her three times afore she understood 'im, and then, instead of being thankful to 'im for 'is thoughtfulness, she chased him 'arf over Wapping with a chopper, screaming ...

— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs

... that he did it mentally, and said aloud what was sufficient to enable his followers to do the same. Even at this day to repeat in the same manner but the first line of a common hymn would be understood as a reference to the whole. Above all, I am thankful for the thought which suggested itself to my mind, whilst I was reading this beautiful psalm, namely, that we should not exclusively think of Christ as the Logos united to human nature, but likewise as a perfect man united to the Logos. ...

— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge

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