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Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Thanks"giv`ing, n.
1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for
favors or mercies.
Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be
refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. --1
Tim. iv. 4.
In the thanksgiving before meat. --Shak.
And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of
high thanksgiving still. --Keble.
2. 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.
Note: In the United States it is now customary for the
President by proclamation to appoint annually a day
(usually the last Thursday in November) of thanksgiving
and praise to God for the mercies of the past year.
This is an extension of the custom long prevailing in
several States in which an annual Thanksgiving day has
been appointed by proclamation of the governor.
Meaning of Thanksgiving from wikipedia
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Thanksgiving is a
national holiday celebrated on
various dates in
October and
November in the
United States, Canada,
Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially...
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Thanksgiving is a
federal holiday in the
United States celebrated on the
fourth Thursday of
November (which
became the
uniform date country-wide in 1941)...
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Thanksgiving Parade may
refer to the
following annual parades that take
place on
Thanksgiving Day currently, previously, or
originally presented by department...
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Thanksgiving is a 2023
American slasher film
directed by Eli Roth and
written by Jeff Rendell,
based on a
story by the pair, who
produced with
Roger Birnbaum...
- the
United States.
Thanksgiving or
Thanksgiving Day may also
refer to:
Thanksgiving (Canada)
Thanksgiving (United States)
Thanksgiving (2004 film), a 2004...
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Thanksgiving (French:
Action de grâce) or
Thanksgiving Day (French: Jour de l'Action de grâce), is an
annual Canadian holiday held on the
second Monday...
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Thanksgiving prayer or
prayer of
Thanksgiving may
refer to: any
prayer of
thankfulness a
prayer offered at
Thanksgiving Thanksgiving after Communion, a...
- The Macy's
Thanksgiving Day
Parade is an
annual parade in New York City
presented by the American-based
department store chain Macy's. The
Parade first...
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contemporary Thanksgiving in the
United States is
Thanksgiving dinner, a
large meal
generally centered on a
large roasted turkey.
Thanksgiving is the largest...
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games on
Thanksgiving Day,
patterned upon the
historic playing of
college football games on or
around the
November holiday. The NFL's
Thanksgiving Day games...
