thankworthy
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- thankworthiness noun
Etymology
Origin of thankworthy
First recorded in 1350–1400; thank + -worthy ( def. )
Example Sentences
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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 Velde, Carl Franz van der
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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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
And to me, indeed, the services of Caius Caesar have always appeared the more thankworthy, in proportion as they were less to have been expected from a man of his age.
From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius
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