Definition of Thanksgiving

Thanks´giv`ing
n.1.The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.
Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving.
- 1 Tim. iv. 4.
In the thanksgiving before meat.
- Shak.
And taught by thee the Church prolongs
Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.
- Keble.
2.A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.


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