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GRATITUDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A feeling of thankfulness and appreciation
Example:
he was overwhelmed with gratitude for their help
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("gratitude" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gratitude"):
appreciativeness; gratefulness; thankfulness (warm friendly feelings of gratitude)
Antonym:
ingratitude (a lack of gratitude)
Context examples:
No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
That line stirred him with a profound feeling of gratitude.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
At last the tapping recommenced, and, to our indescribable joy and gratitude, died slowly away again until it ceased to be heard.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They think themselves secure, you do no more than what is expected, and it raises no gratitude at all.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Out of gratitude for the favours you have done me, I procured information of the whole proceedings, and a copy of the articles; wherein I venture my head for your service.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
‘Really, I hardly know how to express my gratitude, Mr. Pinner,’ said I.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A lover evidently, for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must feel to you?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Mr. Holmes,” said Hopkins, “I do not know how to express my gratitude. Even now I do not understand how you attained this result.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I spoke with a confidence she knew I did not feel, for she looked at me with that unfaltering gaze of hers and said: I have not thanked you yet for all you have done for me but— She hesitated, as if in doubt how best to word her gratitude.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
