thank
verb (used with object)
to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Many readers of In Memoriam will have thanked its author for these trespasses upon the Holy Land, feeling indeed there was no profane intrusion.
From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Mrs. Alfred Gatty