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