ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

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_e
[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! † , 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! [G.].
917. Ingratitude -- N. ingratitude, thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, unthankfulness † .
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 † , 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, 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 † , 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 † , unavenged,
unrevenged † .
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 † ; vengeance; avengement † , avengeance † , sweet
revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation &c 718; day of reckoning.
rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence &c 907; ruthlessness &c 914.1.
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.