thankworthy
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of thankworthy
First recorded in 1350–1400; thank + -worthy ( def. )
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Now, wherein we want desert, were a thankworthy labour to express.
From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sir Philip Sidney
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
From Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley
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
St. Peter was addressing himself especially to the slaves when he wrote, "For this is thankworthy, if for conscience towards God a man endures sorrows, suffering wrongfully."
From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks
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
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