Word Meanings - THANKSGIVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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

Additional info about word: THANKSGIVING

1. 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. 2. 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. Note: In the United States it is now customary for the President by proclamation to appoint annually a day (usually the last Thursday in November) of thanksgiving and praise to God for the mercies of the past year. This is an extension of the custom long prevailing in several States in which an annual Thanksgiving day has been appointed by proclamation of the governor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THANKSGIVING)

• Benediction
• Blessing
• commendation
• approval
• benison
• gratitude
• thankfulness
• thanksgiving

Related words: (words related to THANKSGIVING)

• THANKSGIVING
  1. 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
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• GRATITUDE
  The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton.
• THANKSGIVER
  One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.
• THANKSGIVE
  To give or dedicate in token of thanks. Mede.
• COMMENDATION
  A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting. Hark you, Margaret; No princely commendations to my king Shak. (more info) 1. The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation. Need we . . . epistles of
• BENEDICTIONAL
  A book of benedictions.
• BLESSEDLY
  Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.
• APPROVAL
  Approbation; sanction. A censor . . . without whose approval nTemple. Syn. -- See Approbation.
• BENISON
  Blessing; beatitude; benediction. Shak. More precious than the benison of friends. Talfourd. (more info) L. benedictio, fr. benedicere to bless; bene +
• BLESSED
  Beatified. 6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. Not a blessed man came to set her free. R. D. Blackmore. (more info) 1. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble
• BENEDICTION
  The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction. (more info) 1. The act of blessing. 2. A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation
• BLESSER
  One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.
• BENEDICTIONARY
  A collected series of benedictions. The benedictionary of Bishop Athelwold. G. Gurton's Needle.
• BLESSED THISTLE
  See THISTLE
• BLESSEDNESS
  The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak. Syn.
• BLESS
  bloedsian, fr. bl blood; prob. originally to consecrate by sprinkling 1. To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. Gen. ii. 3. 2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• RIBLESS
  Having no ribs.
• LIMBLESS
  Destitute of limbs.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• CUBLESS
  Having no cubs. Byron.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• HERBLESS
  Destitute of herbs or of vegetation. J. Warton.
• UNBLESS
  To deprive of blessings; to make wretched. Shak.
• TOMBLESS
  Destitute of a tomb.