In the thanksgiving before meat.
Shak.
And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving
still.
Keble.
2. A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a
day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the
goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities
or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.
In the United States it is now customary for the President by
proclamation to appoint annually a day (usually the last Thursday in
November) of thanksgiving and praise to God for the mercies of the past
year. This is an extension of the custom long prevailing in several
States in which an annual Thanksgiving day has been appointed by
proclamation of the governor.
Thank"wor`thi*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being thankworthy.
Thank"wor`thy (?), a. Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude;
mreitorious.
For this thankworthy, if a man, for conscience toward God, endure
grief, suffering wrongfully.