Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
4. RETROSPECTIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
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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
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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,
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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].
#919. Revenge.—N. revenge, revengement[obs3]; vengeance;
avengement[obs3], avengeance|, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud,
blood for blood retaliation &c. 718; day of reckoning. rancor,
vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence &c. 907; ruthlessness &c.
914a. avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides. V. revenge, avenge;
vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge; breathe revenge,
breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger. have
accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a
rod in pickle. keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive
feeling; bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast. Adj. revengeful,
vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless &c. 914a; ruthless, rigorous,
avenging. unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted,
implacable; relentless, remorseless. aeternum servans sub pectore
vulnus[Lat]; rankling; immitigable. Phr. manet ciratrix[Lat], manet
alid mente repostum[Lat][obs3]; dies irae dies illa[Lat]; "in high
vengeance there is noble scorn" [G. Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est ultio
[Lat][Seneca]; malevolus animus abditos dentes habet
[Lat][obs3][Syrus]; "now infidel I have thee on the hip" [Merchant of
Venice].
#920. Jealousy.—N. jealousy,jealousness; jaundiced eye; envious
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suspicion, suspicion; "green-eyed monster" [Othello]; yellows; Juno.
V. be jealous &c. adj.; view with jealousy, view with a jealous
eye.
Adj. jealous, jealous as a barbary pigeon[obs3]; jaundiced,
yellow-
eyed, envious, hornmad.
#921. Envy.—N. envy; enviousness &c. adj.; rivalry; jalousie de
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milier[Fr]; illwill, spite.
V. envy, covet, burst with envy.
Adj. envious, invidious, covetous; alieni appetens[Lat].
Phr. "base envy withers at another's joy" [Thomson]; caeca invidia
est [Lat][Livy]; multa petentibus desunt multa [Lat][Horace]; summa
petit
livor [Lat][Ovid].
SECTION IV. MORAL AFFECTIONS
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