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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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... a type; a type that some married men may be thankful continues to exist. God!" he broke out violently, "if he could hear you talk of him, it would be a lesson to the fool, but he won't hear you. No man ever does hear these things until the knowledge comes too late to be of any use to him. You have got to have your strings"—he ...

— The Pointing Man - A Burmese Mystery • Marjorie Douie

... and curse? Oh no—to murmur loth, He only said, "Go, get a nurse: Be thankful that it isn't worse; You might ...

— More Bab Ballads • W. S. Gilbert

... you, growing up into a woman. Would you keep her a child forever, her head always a little lower than your heart? Would you stand where you are to-day, always doing the same things, always repeating the same experiences, never leaving off? Then be thankful that the Wisdom and Goodness by which this passing show is ordered will not suffer you to indulge your foolish wish. The wisest men and women are not those who cling tenaciously to one point of life, with desperate aversion to all change, but those who travel cheerfully ...

— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke

... much still to be thankful for: I was so strong, and had such high spirits, Sophy, and found people not behaving ill to me,—quite the contrary, so kind. I found no Crane (she monster) as you did, my little angel. Such prospects before me, if I had ...

— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... evening, but her self-appointed friend would not. He paid her steamboat fare back, and talked to her assiduously as he had done during the afternoon, but with little better success, and Kate was thankful when the miserable day came to an end, and she was once more in the little bedroom she shared ...

— Kate's Ordeal • Emma Leslie

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