thankworthy
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of thankworthy
First recorded in 1350–1400; thank + -worthy ( def. )
Example Sentences
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In our notes on Jerusalem we shall have, like the “devil” of The Two Songs, to look at it from the inverse side and pass upon it a more laborious and less thankworthy comment.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders
And St. Peter says: “This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief.”
From True Christianity by Johann Arndt
If this friendly service appears to you to be thankworthy, you can repay it with like clemency when one of our brethren falls into your hands.'
From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Carl Franz van der Velde
For this is thankworthy, when any one, for conscience toward God, endures grief, suffering wrongfully.
From The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained by E. H. (Ezra Hall) Gillett
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