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     #916.  Gratitude. —­ N. gratitude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation,
sense of obligation.
     acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving
thanks; thankful good will.
     thanks, praise, benediction; paean; Te Deum &c. (worship) 990[Lat];
grace, grace before meat, grace after meat, grace before meals, grace after meals; thank offering.
     requital. 
     V. be grateful &c. adj.; thank; give thanks, render thanks, return
thanks, offer thanks, tender thanks &c. n.; acknowledge, requite.
     feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an
obligation; savoir gr[Fr]; not look a gift horse in the mouth; never forget, overflow with gratitude; thank one’s stars, thank one’s lucky stars, bless one’s stars; fall on one’s knees. 
     Adj. grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under
obligation. 
     Int. thanks! many thanks! gramercy[obs3]! much obliged! thank you!
thank you very much! thanks a lot! thanks a heap, thanks loads [coll.]; thank Heaven!  Heaven be praised!  Gott sei Dank[Ger]!.

     #917.  Ingratitude. —­ N. ingratitude, thanklessness, oblivion of
benefits, unthankfulness[obs3].
     “benefits forgot”; thankless task,thankless office. 
     V. be ungrateful &c. adj.; forget benefits; look a gift horse in the
mouth. 
     Adj. ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful; thankless, ingrate, wanting in
gratitude, insensible of benefits.
     forgotten; unacknowledged, unthanked[obs3], unrequited, unrewarded;
ill-requited. 
     Int. thank you for nothing! thanks for nothing! “et tu Brute!”
[Julius Caesar]. 
     Phr. “ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend” [Lear].

     #918.  Forgiveness. —­ N. forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace,
remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion; indulgence; reprieve.
     conciliation; reconcilement; reconciliation &c. (pacification) 723;
propitiation.
     excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity; bill of indemnity,
act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity; exculpation &c. (acquittal) 970.
     longanimity[obs3], placability; amantium irae[Lat]; locus
paenitentiae[Lat]; forbearance. 
     V. forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let
bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pass over, overlook; wink at &c. (neglect) 460; bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront.
     let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve; acquit &c. 970.
     beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon &c. n.; conciliate, propitiate,
placate; make up a quarrel &c. (pacify) 723; let the wound heal. 
     Adj. forgiving, placable, conciliatory,.
     forgiven &c. v.; unresented[obs3], unavenged, unrevenged[obs3]. 
     Adv. cry you mercy. 
     Phr. veniam petimusque damusque vicissim [Lat][Horace]; more in sorrow
than in anger; comprendre tout c’est tout pardonner[Fr]; “the offender never pardons” [Herbert].