thanking

== English == === Verb === thanking present participle and gerund of thank === Noun === thanking (plural thankings) The act by which thanks are given; thanks. 1484, William Caxton, The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope, Book 3, “The Lyon & the pastour or herdman,”[1] And therfore this is notary and trewe that al maner of folke ought to rendre and gyue thankynges grace and mercye to theyre good doers