thanksgiving
noun
the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgment of benefits or favors, especially to God.
thanksgivings
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pluralof thanksgiving.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They are usually full of colourful thanksgivings led by families and parish groups and this would have been no different.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2022
“There’s compelling evidence that the first English Thanksgiving occurred here, but that was over 1,000 years behind the thanksgivings offered by indigenous people,” said Stephen Adkins, 73, chief of Virginia’s Chickahominy tribe.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
Historians have noted that New England’s calendar was one of the most physically draining ever adopted, with colonists working practically every day save for Sabbath, Election Day, public thanksgivings and “days of humiliation.”
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2015
For the bounties of heaven and their red-clay acres the people of Walthall County, Miss, gave devout thanks last week, eight weeks ahead of more usual thanksgivings.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Tacitus grimly requests his readers to presume that, as often as a banishment or execution was ordered by Nero, so often were thanksgivings offered to the gods.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
