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gratefulness

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grate·ful  (grtfl)
adj.
1. Appreciative of benefits received; thankful.
2. Expressing gratitude.
3. Affording pleasure or comfort; agreeable.
[From obsolete grate, pleasing, from Latin grtus; see gwer-2 in Indo-European roots.]
grateful·ly adv.
grateful·ness n.
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Noun1.gratefulnessgratefulness - warm friendly feelings of gratitude
appreciativeness, thankfulness
gratitude - a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation; "he was overwhelmed with gratitude for their help"


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Tom got more cuffs and kisses that day -- according to Aunt Polly's varying moods -- than he had earned before in a year; and he hardly knew which expressed the most gratefulness to God and affection for himself.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
He drank until his sun-shrunken sides stood out like the walls of a balloon, although longer were the intervals from the drinking in which, with his tongue of gratefulness, he spoke against the black skin of Lamai's hand.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
After that, while the audience clapped and stamped its approval and delight of the dog Caruso, Jacob Henderson would appear on the stage, bowing and smiling in stereotyped gladness and gratefulness, rest his right hand on Michael's shoulders with a play-acted assumption of comradeliness, whereupon both Henderson and Michael would bow ere the final curtain went down.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
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