thankworthy
Americanadjective
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Origin of thankworthy
First recorded in 1350–1400; thank + -worthy ( def. )
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It is thus a very thankworthy task to try to rescue something—the memory of interesting and important events, or the leading features and personages of some epoch—from the general shipwreck of the world.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)
If thou lovest good scholars, this is not thankworthy in thee.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
As yet we have only a most thankworthy preliminary study in Schürer's great work, and beside it particular or dilettante attempts which hardly shew what the problem really is, far less solve it.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
And thou, It seems, scarce findest it thankworthy.
From Emblems Of Love by Abercrombie, Lascelles
Now, wherein we want desert, were a thankworthy labour to express.
From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sidney, Philip, Sir
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