gratitude

Roget category 916

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.4. Retrospective sympathetic affections

#916. Gratitude

noun

gratitude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation, sense of obligation.
acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving thanks — thankful good will.
thanks, praise, benediction — paean — Te Deum [Lat.] etc. (worship) 990 — grace, grace before meat, grace after meat, grace before meals, grace after meals — thank offering.
requital.

verb

be grateful etc. adj. — thank — give thanks, render thanks, return thanks, offer thanks, tender thanks etc. n. — acknowledge, requite.
feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an obligation — savoir gr_e [Fr.] — not look a gift horse in the mouth — never forget, overflow with gratitude — thank one's stars, thank one's lucky stars, bless one's stars — fall on one's knees.

adjective

grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation.

interjection

thanks!, many thanks!, gramercy! ^†, much obliged!, thank you!, thank you very much!, thanks a lot!, thanks a heap, thanks loads [Coll.] — thank Heaven!, Heaven be praised!, Gott sei Dank! [G.].

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