thanksgiving
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thanksgiving (plural thanksgivings)
- an expression of gratitude.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
- The waters grew suddenly lighter, and my spirits rose accordingly. I shouted down to those below that I saw daylight ahead, and a great shout of thanksgiving reverberated through the ship. A moment later we emerged into sunlit water, and immediately I raised the periscope and looked about me upon the strangest landscape I had ever seen.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
- a short prayer said at meals; grace, a benediction
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expression of gratitude
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short prayer said at meals
