[f. as next + GIVER.] One who gives thanks.
1621. Ainsworth, Annot. Song Sol., i. 3. Thankesgivings, in Nehem. 12. 31 [are] for companies of thankesgivers.
1690. C. Nesse, O. & N. Test., I. 71. The life of thanksgiving is the good life of the thanks-giver.
1818. Bentham, Ch. Eng., 123. Exhausted by that same grand effort, the stock of thanksgivers is gone.
1883. J. Parker, Tyne Chylde, 270. Thankfulness elevates and ennobles the thanksgiver.
