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gratefulness

[ greyt-fuhl-nis ]

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noun

warm and deep appreciation for kindness received; gratitude or thankfulness:
After working as a doctor in parts of Africa, I feel a new-found respect and gratefulness for the healthcare we receive here.

She murmured something in remonstrance, but flooded with gratefulness for the very thing she tried to protest against.

The young Grotius, like Horace, has celebrated his gratefulness for so good a father in some verses still extant.

Tears of delight and gratefulness,—blessed tears,—sparkle upon Sulamith's pale and beautiful face.

Then there is the other peace, it is the peace of gratefulness: “Be ye thankful.”

They help one to utter a mood, or a sense of gratefulness for pleasure given.

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