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ˈthankˌworthy, a.
Also 6–7 thanks-.
Worthy of thanks; deserving gratitude or credit.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love Prol. (Skeat) l. 39 Although this booke be lytel thank worthy for the leudnesse in trauail. 1421Sir H. Luttrell in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 86 Wherfore..he ys thankworthy. 1533J. Heywood Play Weather (1903) 1125 Thy labour is ryght myche thankeworthy. 1534Tindale 1 Pet. ii. 19 For it is thankeworthye yf a man for conscience towarde god endure grefe, sufferinge wrongfully. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xiii. (1596) 202 No lesse thanks-worthie a part of Seruice. 1672Wilkins Nat. Relig. 31 It would not be thank-worthy for a man to believe that which of necessity he must believe. 1891T. K. Cheyne Orig. Psalter Introd. 17 A faulty but at that time thankworthy book.
Hence ˈthankˌworthily adv., in a thankworthy manner; ˈthankˌworthiness, the quality or condition of being thankworthy.
1553Bale Gardiner's De vera Obed. C vij, To exercise our selues godly and *thankeworthyly. 1874Swinburne Bothwell i. i. 7 And we that do it, we do it for all men's good, For the main people's love, thankworthily.
1847Webster, *Thank-worthiness. |