| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | | Section III. Sympathetic Affections | | 4. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections |
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| 916. Gratitude. |
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| NOUN: | GRATITUDE, gratefulness, thankfulness; feeling of -, sense of- obligation.
acknowledgment, recognition, thanks-giving, giving thanks; thankful good will.
THANKS, praise, benediction; pæan; Te Deum (worship) [See Worship]; grace, - before meat, - after meat; thank offering; requital.
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| VERB: | BE GRATEFUL &c. adj.; thank; give -, render -, return -, offer -, tender- thanks &c. n.; acknowledge, requite.
feel -, be -, lie- under an obligation; savoir gré [F.]; not look a gift horse in the mouth; never forget, overflow with gratitude; thank -, bless- one’s stars; fall on one’s knees.
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| ADJECTIVE: | GRATEFUL, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation
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| INTERJECTION: | THANKS! many thanks! gramercy! much obliged! thank you! thank Heaven! Heaven be praised! |
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Now, God be praised, the day is ours.—Macaulay
- The still small voice of gratitude.—Gray
- Alas! the gratitude of men Hath often left me mourning.—Wordsworth
- A lively sense of favors to come.
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