thanksgiving

See also: Thanksgiving

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thanksgiving (countable and uncountable, plural thanksgivings)

An expression of gratitude.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
  The waters grew suddenly lighter, and my spirits rose accordingly. I shouted down to those below that I saw daylight ahead, and a great shout of thanksgiving reverberated through the ship. A moment later we emerged into sunlit water, and immediately I raised the periscope and looked about me upon the strangest landscape I had ever seen.
A short prayer said at meals; grace, a benediction.
A public celebration in acknowledgement of divine favour.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict‎^[1]:
  Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.

expression of gratitude — See also translations at gratitude

short prayer said at meals