- (n.) 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.
- (n.) The act of rending thanks or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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