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gratitude Noun a feeling of being grateful for gifts or favours [Latin gratus grateful]
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gratitude noun thankfulness, thanks, recognition, obligation, appreciation, indebtedness, sense of obligation, gratefulness << OPPOSITE ingratitude Translations n gratitude [ˈgrӕtitjuːd] the state of feeling grateful I wish there was some way of showing my gratitude for all you have done for me. dankbaarheid شُكْر، إمتِنان благодарност vděčnost taknemlighed die Dankbarkeit ευγνωμοσύνη gratitud tänulikkus قدردانی kiitollisuus gratitude הַכָּרָת תּוֹדָה कृतज्ञता zahvalnost hála rasa terima kasih þakklæti gratitudine 感謝 감사(하는 마음) dėkingumas pateicība rasa terima kasih dankbaarheid takknemlighet wdzięczność gratidão gratitudine благодарность vďačnosť hvaležnost zahvalnost tacksamhet ความรู้สึกขอบคุณ minnettarlık, şükran 感激 вдячність; подяка تشکر lòng biết ơn 感激 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Hence Quasimodo's gratitude was profound, passionate, boundless; and although the visage of his adopted father was often clouded or severe, although his speech was habitually curt, harsh, imperious, that gratitude never wavered for a single moment. In one place the peasants presented him with bread and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. You see, if it were not a palace, but a hen-house, I might creep into it to avoid getting wet, and yet I would not call the hen-house a palace out of gratitude to it for keeping me dry. |
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