Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Worthy of or deserving thanks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worthy of or deserving thanks; entitled to grateful acknowledgment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude; mreitorious.
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- adjective Deserving
thanks ; worthy ofgratitude .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"But if when ... ye take it patiently (it is a glory), for this is acceptable." acceptable -- Greek, "thankworthy," as in 1Pe 2: 19. 21.
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For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
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For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
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It is thus a very thankworthy task to try to rescue something — the memory of interesting and important events, or the leading features and personages of some epoch — from the general shipwreck of the world.
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For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
1 Peter 2. 1999
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For this is thankworthy: if, for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 67: 1 Peter The Challoner Revision
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But if doing well you suffer patiently: this is thankworthy before God.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 67: 1 Peter The Challoner Revision
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But if doing well you suffer patiently: this is thankworthy before God.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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If thou lovest good scholars, this is not thankworthy in thee.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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"For this is thankworthy, if for conscience towards God a man endures sorrows, suffering wrongfully."
The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks
hernesheir commented on the word thankworthy
(adj): meritorious; deserving of thanks or gratitude.
January 15, 2009