THANKFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thankfulness mean? 

• THANKFULNESS (noun)
  The noun THANKFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. warm friendly feelings of gratitude

  Familiarity information: THANKFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THANKFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Warm friendly feelings of gratitude

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

appreciativeness; gratefulness; thankfulness

Hypernyms ("thankfulness" is a kind of...):

gratitude (a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation)

Derivation:

thankful (feeling or showing gratitude)

 Context examples 

I knew long that Mr. Jonathan was a man of much thankfulness; but see, his wife have all the good things.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Serious she was, very serious in her thankfulness, and in her resolutions; and yet there was no preventing a laugh, sometimes in the very midst of them.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

From these instructions they were summoned by the arrival of the coach; and with many speeches of thankfulness on Mr. Collins's side and as many bows on Sir William's they departed.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun, which bestowed such joy upon me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

MANY a woman’s knee was on the ground, and many a woman’s soul spent itself in joy and thankfulness when the news came with the fall of the leaf in 1801 that the preliminaries of peace had been settled.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, since the king was pleased to allow me access to his royal person, I was resolved, upon the very first occasion, to deliver my opinion to him on this matter freely and at large, by the help of my interpreter; and whether he would please to take my advice or not, yet in one thing I was determined, that his majesty having frequently offered me an establishment in this country, I would, with great thankfulness, accept the favour, and pass my life here in the conversation of those superior beings the struldbrugs, if they would please to admit me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At this period of my life, my heart far oftener swelled with thankfulness than sank with dejection: and yet, reader, to tell you all, in the midst of this calm, this useful existence—after a day passed in honourable exertion amongst my scholars, an evening spent in drawing or reading contentedly alone—I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy—dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr. Rochester, always at some exciting crisis; and then the sense of being in his arms, hearing his voice, meeting his eye, touching his hand and cheek, loving him, being loved by him—the hope of passing a lifetime at his side, would be renewed, with all its first force and fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You may believe me, when I heerd her voice, as I had heerd at home so playful—and see her humbled, as it might be in the dust our Saviour wrote in with his blessed hand—I felt a wownd go to my 'art, in the midst of all its thankfulness.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When we got in, and had washed our feet, and had said a prayer of thankfulness together, I tucked her into bed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)