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gratefulness

[ greyt-fuhl-nis ]

noun

  1. 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.



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  • o·ver·grate·ful·ness noun

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Example Sentences

I’m really grateful that we can still create and develop amazing experiences for our visitors virtually and physically, in person, too.

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I cried because I’d wished we’d caught it earlier and because I was grateful that I’d trusted my gut.

Haurylava remembered how grateful she’d felt when Ashton and other Utah health-care workers showed up to help her and her team last spring.

Their mother, Lucy, said she is grateful for the money they bring in but reminds them that she wants them to get an education.

Michelle returned the love on her own page, writing, “So grateful to have him as a partner through everything life throws at us.”

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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