01 n. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.
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The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.“Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving.” — 1 Tim. iv. 4.“In the thanksgiving before meat.” — Shak.“And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.” — Keble.
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A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.