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Definition of grace in English: gracenoun ɡreɪsɡreɪs mass noun1Smoothness and elegance of movement. she moved through the water with effortless grace Example sentencesExamples - Thirty years of relentless training and performance have given him total grace and fluidity of movement.
- She was 5'7, slim and wiry, with a dancer's slow, precise grace in her movements.
- Because of the lightness and grace of the movements, the martial art is cunningly disguised as dance.
- Even against such odds, she had not given up; she fought without skill or training, but her movements spoke of grace and control.
- While it is true that some of us are with blessed with natural grace of movement, this doesn't necessarily translate to dance movement.
- I generally perform with all the elegance and grace of a hippopotamus.
- Nothing on this earth could match their fast movements and grace.
- The battlecruisers' movements lost their grace, and they fired with far less precision.
- Training imparts a sort of grace to their movements and timbre in their voice.
- He danced marvelously with grace, elegance and form.
- The rhythm of his run, the accuracy of the plant and the ease and effortless grace with which he flipped over the cross bar provided a fascinating spectacle.
- I do the first couple of movements with grace and ease… but then I forget.
- In plain leotards six dancers brought the discordant music and bare stage to life with their precise, agile movement and amazing grace on a centre stage trapeze.
- It wasn't exactly a movement of grace but I really didn't care.
- Sweat was dripping down our faces by this time, but we had to keep our smiles planted on our face and an ease and grace in our movements.
- She moved with such grace following my every movement.
- They have beauty on their side, they also have grace and elegance.
- Ultimate grace and effortless precision combine into a vision of someone floating on a cloud.
- Her mother, Bo, was a beauty pageant winner in Korea, and as you watch her daughter on the course you have a sense that she has inherited some of the same elegance and grace.
- Two ladies strolled out, walking with perfect elegance and grace.
Synonyms elegance, stylishness, poise, finesse, charm gracefulness, dexterity, adroitness deftness, fluidity of movement, fluency, flow, suppleness, smoothness, ease, effortlessness, naturalness, neatness, precision, agility, nimbleness, light-footedness informal poetry in motion rare flowingness, lightsomeness 2Courteous good will. he had the good grace to apologize to her afterwards Example sentencesExamples - They've tolerated our haphazard approach to marriage with grace and humour.
- She let me off the hook with grace, respect and her trademark southern charm.
- And he didn't even have the good grace to admit being caught out.
- And to give him his due, Monty had the good grace to admit the article had spurred him on to prove he could still win at the highest level.
- When he visited us in Delhi, I was immediately charmed by his grace, civility and intellectual sensitivity.
- ‘I don't want to make a big deal out of this,’ she says with a characteristic mixture of grace and frankness.
- Despite suffering what must have been a hurtful rebuff for a young academic, she spoke of him in very respectful terms, characteristic of her usual grace.
- All the guests were models of decorum, grace and manners and I didn't know if I would get used to such good behaviour.
- Rather than seeing this as a sign of weakness, I see it as a sign of grace, courtesy, and diplomacy.
- And they are familiar with every principal difference between UK and US culture and deal with them with grace and good humour.
- At least he had the good grace to apologize quickly.
- All these visitors to our realm should be greeted with the same grace and courtesy.
- Everyone in New York was so proud of the politeness, grace and conduct of their visitors who have made countless friends throughout the US.
- All Americans have come to see this city as place of bravery, of generosity and grace.
- He handles it all with politeness and good grace.
- They were the picture of decency, commitment, and stability, of grace, strength, and integrity.
- At least he has the good grace to admit that the professional relationship he has with his deputy is different these days.
- Your grace and diplomacy take you to high places and to important people.
- She tolerated my eleven year old's questions with grace and kindness.
- They didn't have to give me their time but they did - and they did it with humour and good grace.
Synonyms courtesy, courteousness, politeness, manners, good manners, mannerliness, civility, decorum, decency, propriety, breeding, respect, respectfulness consideration, thought, thoughtfulness, tact, tactfulness, diplomacy, etiquette humorous couth - 2.1graces An attractively polite manner of behaving.
she has all the social graces Example sentencesExamples - In many tribal cultures, the social graces, being polite, showing respect and personal interactions are more important than being on time.
- It's just that I don't have the personality to sit still and make sure to keep my laughter at a low tone and pretend I am interested in mundane things for the sake of social graces.
- There is no doubt manners and social graces are essential pillars to hold up our society.
- In Japan, by observing all the social graces, I could often pass for a native.
- He has a marvelous ability to handle women - with all the social graces.
- Perhaps there you can learn some of the basics of the social graces.
- My tutor hadn't explained the social graces: how, to some extent at least, all players around the table often want the same outcome for the dice and build up some camaraderie.
- There is a stereotyped image of the virus writer: male, in his teens or early twenties, technically talented but lacking in all the social graces.
- From an early age, children are trained in etiquette and the social graces.
- Nanotechnology may cure chemically-based paranoia and depression forever, but it will not confer social graces on the awkward - or compassion on the intolerant.
- It's not everyday someone just offers you food, so good graces and manners were what he needed at this moment in time.
- Campus interviewers often rush through résumés, looking more for future graduates with potential, which may or may not amount to social graces.
- And above all, he has replaced his father's courtesy and good graces with an almost proud rudeness and scorn for others.
- For all her military ambitions, Dana was well trained in the social graces, and could waltz as well as she could fight.
- Her family was well connected, and Griffith received an education suitable for a fine lady in polite literature, French, poetry, and the social graces.
- High-minded citizens petitioned Congress to vote in a new era of enlightened laws to cultivate the social graces.
3(in Christian belief) the free and unmerited favour of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings. Example sentencesExamples - He gave away much that others might enjoy the treasure of God's grace in Jesus Christ.
- How can people appreciate the wonder of grace, forgiveness and salvation if they have not first learnt about God's holiness and the gravity of sin?
- We are saved by God's free grace, through faith in Christ's atoning death and resurrection.
- Not only does God give us wisdom and His grace, we are blessed with His qualities, which is to be Christ-like.
- We all know that Paul's letters emphasise salvation by grace through faith.
- Paul's gospel is that salvation comes by grace through faith, to Jew and Gentile alike.
- Does it bring glory to the Son of God as the only dispenser of grace to guilty sinners - and the only way to God?
- If rejection is our dilemma, grace is our salvation.
- The truth was that they were saved by grace and that all spiritual blessings were theirs in Christ.
- Even at our best, we are pretty ambiguous characters, and it is only by God's grace in Christ that we have hope of salvation.
- They have no understanding of the gospel, no knowledge of God's free grace, and no experience of the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit.
- He is worthy of worship and calls sinners saved by grace to this great endeavour.
- They know that they stand accepted by God, forgiven and adopted into God's family, solely on the basis of God's free grace.
- It is faith in Jesus Christ, whose righteousness has been imputed to us by the free grace of God.
- Harvey also talked about God's grace in his life though.
- The chief remedy for sin, poverty and dirt should be the gospel of God's free grace.
- Every true Christian is evidence of that, for every one is a sinner saved by grace.
- The book approached the issue of salvation, God's grace, and human free will from a Calvinist perspective.
- Our main message is salvation through grace alone, by faith alone, through Christ alone.
- In a general sense this miracle speaks to us about the dawn of the gospel of grace through Jesus Christ.
Synonyms favour, good will, generosity, kindness, benefaction, beneficence, indulgence - 3.1count noun A divinely given talent or blessing.
the scheme has proved to be a great grace for the Church Example sentencesExamples - A fair number of the devotees we spoke to believed that this is the most auspicious moment of the festival and everyone who is present and sees the flat being hoisted, receives special blessings and graces from the Holy Mother.
- The seven deadly sins and their antitheses, the four cardinal virtues and three heavenly graces, provide the book's organising principle.
- Perseverance is an unmerited gift of grace, just as is also the initial turning of the will to God in faith and penitence.
- That's not only uncharitable, it's an almost guaranteed way to blind oneself to all the graces of the sacrament of Holy Orders.
- Peace grows when the graces of God and the blessings of Earth are not considered possessions to be protected but divine gifts intended for all.
- By God's great grace, his prayers for my salvation have now been answered.
- The theme will be thanksgiving for the many graces and blessings we receive.
- He didn't accept that her experiences were divine graces and ordered her to terminate her ecstasies as soon as she felt them beginning.
- For John, mystical theology is a gift of grace by which a prayerful person stands before and has some kind of experience of the presence of God.
- First they acknowledge publicly their commitment to the Catholic Church and receive the graces of the sacraments but they also enjoy being fussed over, dressing in new clothes and getting lots of money!
- In our day and age, we have to be thankful for small graces.
- 3.2 The condition or fact of being favoured by someone.
Example sentencesExamples - In fact, her perfect fall from grace earns nothing but fresh punishment for her lack of attention to detail.
- Suffice to say, Harry's homecoming does not see him greeted with open arms, and the majority of the story is concerned with Harry's attempts to regain Hannah's good graces.
- Spending his final years a man in exile, Ray lived a life where drugs and alcohol caused his fall from grace.
- They themselves have fallen from grace in recent years, with the exploits of their junior footballers taking most, if not all, of the limelight away from the hurlers.
- A fall from grace does not take much: a drunken tumble, a night out with the wrong man, an inadvertent outburst, a struggle with dependency.
- Richardson's sad fall from grace began with his addiction to cocaine.
- But it suffered a spectacular fall from grace when about £2bn of its funds ran into severe trouble as equity markets plunged.
- Burdened by addiction and avarice, Fatty's rise to stardom soon became a fall from grace.
- Fella went on to say that after this fall from grace, everybody expressed shock, shock I tell you, that this man was so reckless.
- In its infancy, the process fell from grace because of production problems.
- We always knew that their descent into the heinous crimes that they once covered with alleged-virtue would make for a magnificent fall from grace.
- The genre's current fall from grace stems from the fact that it is dominated by the same DJs now as it was in 1988.
- Just when Bangalore's lakes are heading towards a fall from grace, lake wardens are all set to rejuvenate them.
- It's been an abrupt fall from grace for the author.
- He had two Oscar nominations, before falling from grace and into an ugly drug habit.
- Stevens isn't referring to conflict of interests here, but his words are the best assessment of the Supreme Court's fall from grace.
- I will put aside my own feelings in order to examine the facts of his fall from grace.
- Chris, then, has fallen from grace and is living in a kind of purgatory, respected but terribly alone, knowing he can never be forgiven because the person he wronged is dead.
Synonyms favour, approval, approbation, acceptance, commendation, esteem, regard, respect, preferment, liking, support, goodwill favour, good will, generosity, kindness, benefaction, beneficence, indulgence
4A period officially allowed for payment of a sum due or for compliance with a law or condition, especially an extended period granted as a special favour. we'll give them 30 days' grace and then we'll be doing checks as modifier a two-month grace period Example sentencesExamples - The loan should be repaid within 10 years and has a 5-year grace period and preferential interest.
- However, to avoid a potentially chaotic situation, a 6-month grace period is provided before any regulations may be made invalid.
- Effectively, the family can be given a year's grace before the court grants possession.
- However the local policy of 3 months grace is not a rule of law, and the overall conduct needs to be looked at.
- Of course, it is upon this 12-month grace period that Oakley wish to rely.
- If they are initially below 30 per cent, but then rise to above 35 per cent, the period of grace shall be limited to one year.
- He says that the Mars mission could take place as early as 2009, but the two years' grace period allows the agency to spread the cost around that much more.
- Its purpose was to give borrowers a period of grace before repayments of principal become due.
- The pilot scheme involves cars which are not insured being removed from the road while the drivers are given a period of grace usually seven days in which to organise insurance and recover their vehicles.
- The company has a 30-day grace period to decide whether to make the payments.
- If the patient cannot pay immediately, a period of grace is allowed, but he maintained that this is not the norm.
- Legislation regarding the taxing of bookmakers was going to be amended and they would be given six months' grace under the old payment system.
- The loans were provided at favourable terms, and a period of grace for their repayment was sometimes granted, with significantly low interest rates.
- Subjects were allowed a period of grace, 20% of the period covered by the previous prescription, to obtain another prescription of the drug.
- Quick work was necessary to allow adequate time for the implementation of the legislation within the year's grace allowed by the court, he said.
- The offer of a period of grace is a critical factor in the underwriting of this form of business.
- Just before you know you may miss a payment, ask for a cure, which is a 30-day grace from your mortgage payment.
- In February, the plaintiff again sought and was granted a further grace period to March 31, 1995.
- Late fees now average $29, and most cards have reduced the late payment grace period from 14 days to zero days.
- The loans are extended for up to 12 years with three-year grace period and are available for almost all sectors of the economy.
Synonyms deferment, deferral, postponement, suspension, putting off/back, adjournment, delay, shelving, rescheduling, interruption, arrest, pause respite, stay, moratorium, reprieve North American tabling North American Law continuation rare put-off 5A short prayer of thanks said before or after a meal. Example sentencesExamples - Say a simple little grace before meals, even on the odd day
- The boys eat dinner together with each set of grandparents, say grace before meals, and read or share stories at night.
- They don't leave their rooms until everything is tidy and say grace before every meal.
- Rev Armstrong said the grace before meal and Fr Maginn said the thanksgiving afterwards.
- In many graces, we ask God's blessing for good food and good company.
- I am grateful to my parents in a way as I have never been forced to go to church or to say grace before meals (except at junior school).
- Daddy wasn't religious - none of us were - but he had always said grace before meals, ever since I could remember.
- You two don't say grace at meals, or kiss each other good morning, good night or good-bye.
- Neither of my parents had been overly religious although Da had insisted on saying grace before meals and he refused to do any work on a Sunday.
- Every time you eat (whether it's a snack or a seven-course meal), say grace.
- Finally cubes of sweet juicy mango and fragrant curry leaves were added and we sat down to enjoy a meal with all the family after saying grace in Malayalam.
- She ensured that they said their nightly prayers and grace before meals.
- Twain joined Livy at prayers and grace before meals.
Synonyms prayer of thanks, thanksgiving, blessing, benediction 6His", "Her", or "Your""GraceUsed as forms of description or address for a duke, duchess, or archbishop. His Grace, the Duke of Atholl Example sentencesExamples - Back on the waterfront, the most senior man among Reservists, Major General His Grace the Duke of Westminster, paid a visit to the Royal Naval and Royal Marines Reservists at the Royal Naval HQ Merseyside in Liverpool.
- She will be unveiling a recently sculpted bronze head of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, which has been presented to Sandown Park by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.
- My father is William Seymour, brother to His Grace the Duke of Somerset.
- He was plotting to overthrow the counsel, and even yourself, Your Grace.
- Last week, His Grace, Archbishop Clifford has given his blessing to the plans and sent his adviser on church buildings, to inspect our parish properties.
- Will His Grace, the Duke of Westchester, be attending the ball, Miss Maria?
- This is a state-of-the-art vessel, Your Grace.
- You aren't just trying to protect me are you, Your Grace?
- Again, thank you, Your Grace, for rescuing me from that vile man.
- Finally, I must acknowledge the kindness of His Grace The Duke of Norfolk in allowing access to his archives at Arundel Castle.
- The awards will be presented by His Grace, the Duke of Gloucester, in the Royal Pavilion on Tuesday, July 1.
- ‘It is a pleasure, Your Grace,’ she said, and bowed with a certain level of strength and humility, which overshadowed Elizabeth's own nature.
- I am sorry, Your Grace, but I could never trust myself with that responsibility.
- The Archbishop of York, His Grace Dr David Hope, enthusiastically gave the idea his support and preparations began.
- Nathaniel is a Duke and can either be called Your Grace or the Duke or the Duke of Hartford.
- Interestingly, the Archbishop of Canterbury has so far declined to comment but spokesmen say, somewhat unenthusiastically, that His Grace could ‘see the value’ in inviting them.
- Father replied that he had once made the acquaintance of the Duke of Covington and he would write to His Grace and see if he could help me secure a good position.
- Before she could change her mind, he said quickly to the Cardinal, ‘Thank you for the lesson, Your Grace,’ and turned and ran from the courtyard.
- I am sorry, Your Grace, but perhaps I am misunderstanding something.
7(in Greek mythology) three beautiful goddesses (Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne) believed to personify and bestow charm, grace, and beauty.
verb ɡreɪsɡreɪs 1with object and adverbial Bring honour or credit to (someone or something) by one's attendance or participation. he is one of the best players ever to have graced the game ironic she had deigned to grace the city of New York with her presence Example sentencesExamples - Sampras refused to be drawn on the question of whether he was the greatest player ever to grace the game.
- Mr Palmer said: " Manchester has delivered a magnificent stadium that will grace the city and will be a worthy legacy for Manchester and British sport.
- John Taylor is acknowledged as one of the greatest hurlers ever to play for Laois and indeed one of the finest exponents ever to grace the ancient game.
- Flex congratulates Don, one of the nicest guys to ever grace the sport, on his successful surgery.
- If you have followed my guidelines, you will have undoubtedly created the most perfect email to ever grace the Internet!
- While in Boston he teamed up with Johnny Sain, another pitcher, and the two became one of the greatest duos ever to grace a baseball diamond.
- She turned full time professional in 1979 and came to the attention of the great Mark Murphy, one of the most accomplished and respected jazz vocalists ever to grace a stage.
- A Tour of pure nostalgia with some of the greatest artists ever to grace the concert stage in Ireland will be coming to the north west next month.
- She was fiddling with the oven when she noticed I had graced her with my presence.
- For those of you who have never heard of the man, he was one of the wittiest, cleverest and funniest comedians that ever graced this earth.
- It is fitting that the second half of the top ten best performances of 2003 should include one of the finest Sligo bands ever to grace a stage.
- However, I'm pretty sure that his biggest claim to fame is that of being one of the best live performers ever to grace a concert hall or stadium.
- Botham, 48, is widely considered to be one of the greatest all-rounders ever to grace the game.
- They are without doubt one of the most entertaining live rock shows to ever grace the stage.
- It was great because we got to stay next door to my in-laws, and my mom, probably one of the best cooks ever to grace this planet, lived around the corner.
- And how does he intend to unseat one of the greatest champions that has ever graced these parts?
- Tonight is also boring, because Sky has not graced us with her presence.
- He was selected on the team of Centenary announced five years ago and is regarded as one of the finest footballers ever to grace the Gaelic fields.
- He is perhaps one of the most honest and caring people to ever grace our screens.
- Greaves, a goal-scorer of legendary prowess, is one of the greatest footballers ever to grace the English game.
Synonyms dignify, distinguish, add distinction to, add dignity to, honour, bestow honour on, favour, enhance, add lustre to, magnify, ennoble, glorify, elevate, make lofty, aggrandize, upgrade - 1.1with object (of a person or thing) be an attractive presence in or on; adorn.
Ms Pasco has graced the front pages of magazines like Elle and Vogue Example sentencesExamples - Huge wooden beams in the bedroom and drawing room once graced an Aberdeen wool mill.
- What a contrast that would be from the spoiled, overpaid and selfish athletes who normally grace the covers of sports magazines.
- Jason's sister pulled him into a tight hug, that radiant smile still gracing her lips.
- Before Hamm in January 1997, no woman had ever graced our cover.
- Her images grace everything from linens and bedding to stationery products and floor coverings.
- They would grace our otherwise cluttered shelves.
- Her eyes lit up with a star-struck grin gracing her pale, freckled face.
- The work will also grace the cover of the 45,000 programs distributed all across the state.
- With small blond curls gracing his head and bright blue eyes, Jake was the object of Nell's affections.
- One of his prints also graces the entire back cover of the current issue of ‘Harvest’ - the Diocesan quarterly magazine.
- The boy nodded, a crooked grin gracing his high, rosy cheekbones.
- Some of his mural paintings grace the Synod Palace in Sofia and Varna Cathedral.
- And he did so in some of the most powerful images ever to grace a billboard.
- I am delighted to learn an image of the sculpture will grace the new twenty-dollar bill.
- A special table will grace the Great Chamber of a historic house in York in memory of one of its volunteers.
- Huge oaks, cedars and wisteria grace the 1,300 acre stretch of rambling greens known as Deer Park.
- His woodcarvings still grace the Hotel Marauw and Biak's House of Arts.
- He is the most gorgeous man to ever grace the planet, plain and simple.
- Neither one moved or spoke, but a soft smile graced both of their mouths as they held each other.
- It was April 10, 1912, and in less than an hour the most majestic ship to ever grace the seas would begin her historical maiden voyage.
Synonyms adorn, embellish, decorate, furnish, ornament, add ornament to, enhance beautify, prettify, enrich, bedeck, deck (out), garnish, emblazon, gild, set off informal get up, do up, do out literary bejewel, bedizen, caparison, furbelow
Phrases be in someone's good (or bad) graces Be regarded by someone with favour (or disfavour). Example sentencesExamples - Rule #21 talks about how to get back into the good graces of the group.
- I knew that the second my Dad tasted it Steve would forever be in his good graces, due to the fact that my Dad is a slave to his taste buds.
- In this multicultural world, people from those other cultures demand that they be treated as equal, command the same respect and be in our good graces.
- It's been a long struggle since then, but I think I'm back in their good graces now.
- Though the people that hung out with him really didn't like him, they preferred to be in his good graces than otherwise.
- She guessed that it probably belonged to one of the slaves that were in the queen 's good graces.
- Do you honestly think that after pleasing forty clients this week alone that I'd need to be in your good graces to survive the month?
- Right now, Christians only need obey seven basic rules of morality to be in God's good graces.
- The Lady Morrigan herself has commended you on your fine performances, and suggests that if you keep this up, you will be in her good graces.
- We introduced ourselves and he promised coffee around the halfway point of our night, and by then he was in my good graces.
1A loss of favour or a position of power or honour. the artist's fall from grace Example sentencesExamples - They are now being cross-examined on the tragic and spectacular fall from grace of their chief auditors and consultants.
- Many feel he is the real culprit responsible for this team's fall from grace.
- What ensured his fall from grace were his repeated promises that the war was almost over.
- A fall from grace does not take much: a drunken tumble, a night out with the wrong man, an inadvertent outburst, or a struggle with dependency.
- A mistake was made, and the inevitable fall from grace began.
- Her fall from grace has been as dramatic as her rise to prominence.
- 1.1A descent from a state of divine favour into sin.
Adam and Eve's fall from grace
2Lose favour or a position of power or honour. a pop singer who fell from grace Example sentencesExamples - The moment they see someone has fallen from grace and can be of no further use to them, they discard him.
- Some of the leading business giants have fallen from grace over the past decade due to the lack of alignment between their own internal practices and their customers.
- He was a great athlete before falling from grace.
- He soon fell from grace when he arrived on stage at a pop concert shouting incoherent abuse.
- He fell from grace and was forced to flee the country.
- 2.1Descend from a state of divine favour into sin.
a pop singer who fell from grace
there but for the grace of God (go I) Used to acknowledge one's good fortune in avoiding another's mistake or misfortune. Example sentencesExamples - It's the subject matter, in effect you're saying there but for the grace of God - I wouldn't have wanted to have made any of those moral decisions.
- And we know at one level that there but for the grace of God, or fate, or elementary physics, we could all have been victims.
- When I see it from a professional point of view I think there but for the grace of God go I, but it hits you very differently when you are a parent - it was my Nicola, not just anyone.
- Proprietors themselves, perhaps feeling that there but for the grace of God go they, discourage serious criticism of their rivals.
- My attitude is, there but for the grace of God…’ ‘When I hear people moaning, I think they should come and sit in here for a week and see what goes on and the heartbreak.’
- You know there but for the grace of God… I was just lucky that after my mother died my Aunty Linda was around to take Father and I under her wing otherwise heaven knows where we would have ended up what with his drinking so bad and all.
In a willing and happy (or resentful and reluctant) manner. Example sentencesExamples - By accepting the residents' concerns and the council's decision with good grace, they would have emerged with a few more friends.
- There was no train anywhere near - nothing even shown on the indicator boards - and yet everyone took it with good grace, and sat patiently, quietly, reading or just looking around.
- And residents and community leaders are now calling for developers to accept the decision with good grace and abandon the entire scheme.
- He would, by his own admission, prefer not to have to address large groups, though he approaches this part of his job with good grace.
- You take your tumbles with good grace and always come up smiling.
- They seem to be very against any form of control for what they do, and I have never in my life met anyone who was willing to stop smoking with good grace when asked.
- He accepted his failure with good grace and went back to the Senate.
- If one has apologised, one should accept it with good grace.
- Certain things I can forgive; occasionally I have forgotten how to spell my own name so I smile with good grace upon atrocious spellers and look with kindly benevolence upon the overuse of commas.
- It was very hard fought, but always with good grace.
Synonyms willingly, without hesitation, unhesitatingly, gladly, happily, cheerfully, with pleasure, without reluctance, ungrudgingly, voluntarily
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin gratia, from gratus 'pleasing, thankful'; related to grateful. Rhymes abase, ace, apace, backspace, base, bass, brace, case, chase, dace, efface, embrace, encase, enchase, enlace, face, interlace, interspace, in-your-face, lace, mace, misplace, outface, outpace, pace, place, plaice, race, space, Thrace, trace, upper case Definition of grace in US English: gracenounɡrāsɡreɪs 1Simple elegance or refinement of movement. she moved through the water with effortless grace Example sentencesExamples - In plain leotards six dancers brought the discordant music and bare stage to life with their precise, agile movement and amazing grace on a centre stage trapeze.
- The rhythm of his run, the accuracy of the plant and the ease and effortless grace with which he flipped over the cross bar provided a fascinating spectacle.
- She was 5'7, slim and wiry, with a dancer's slow, precise grace in her movements.
- I generally perform with all the elegance and grace of a hippopotamus.
- Training imparts a sort of grace to their movements and timbre in their voice.
- The battlecruisers' movements lost their grace, and they fired with far less precision.
- Nothing on this earth could match their fast movements and grace.
- Two ladies strolled out, walking with perfect elegance and grace.
- Her mother, Bo, was a beauty pageant winner in Korea, and as you watch her daughter on the course you have a sense that she has inherited some of the same elegance and grace.
- Even against such odds, she had not given up; she fought without skill or training, but her movements spoke of grace and control.
- Ultimate grace and effortless precision combine into a vision of someone floating on a cloud.
- While it is true that some of us are with blessed with natural grace of movement, this doesn't necessarily translate to dance movement.
- He danced marvelously with grace, elegance and form.
- It wasn't exactly a movement of grace but I really didn't care.
- Sweat was dripping down our faces by this time, but we had to keep our smiles planted on our face and an ease and grace in our movements.
- Thirty years of relentless training and performance have given him total grace and fluidity of movement.
- She moved with such grace following my every movement.
- I do the first couple of movements with grace and ease… but then I forget.
- They have beauty on their side, they also have grace and elegance.
- Because of the lightness and grace of the movements, the martial art is cunningly disguised as dance.
Synonyms elegance, stylishness, poise, finesse, charm 2Courteous goodwill. at least he has the grace to admit his debt to her Example sentencesExamples - Despite suffering what must have been a hurtful rebuff for a young academic, she spoke of him in very respectful terms, characteristic of her usual grace.
- She tolerated my eleven year old's questions with grace and kindness.
- All the guests were models of decorum, grace and manners and I didn't know if I would get used to such good behaviour.
- When he visited us in Delhi, I was immediately charmed by his grace, civility and intellectual sensitivity.
- And to give him his due, Monty had the good grace to admit the article had spurred him on to prove he could still win at the highest level.
- They didn't have to give me their time but they did - and they did it with humour and good grace.
- All Americans have come to see this city as place of bravery, of generosity and grace.
- All these visitors to our realm should be greeted with the same grace and courtesy.
- He handles it all with politeness and good grace.
- Your grace and diplomacy take you to high places and to important people.
- ‘I don't want to make a big deal out of this,’ she says with a characteristic mixture of grace and frankness.
- She let me off the hook with grace, respect and her trademark southern charm.
- At least he has the good grace to admit that the professional relationship he has with his deputy is different these days.
- And he didn't even have the good grace to admit being caught out.
- Everyone in New York was so proud of the politeness, grace and conduct of their visitors who have made countless friends throughout the US.
- And they are familiar with every principal difference between UK and US culture and deal with them with grace and good humour.
- They've tolerated our haphazard approach to marriage with grace and humour.
- They were the picture of decency, commitment, and stability, of grace, strength, and integrity.
- Rather than seeing this as a sign of weakness, I see it as a sign of grace, courtesy, and diplomacy.
- At least he had the good grace to apologize quickly.
Synonyms courtesy, courteousness, politeness, manners, good manners, mannerliness, civility, decorum, decency, propriety, breeding, respect, respectfulness - 2.1graces An attractively polite manner of behaving.
she has all the social graces Example sentencesExamples - And above all, he has replaced his father's courtesy and good graces with an almost proud rudeness and scorn for others.
- For all her military ambitions, Dana was well trained in the social graces, and could waltz as well as she could fight.
- There is no doubt manners and social graces are essential pillars to hold up our society.
- In many tribal cultures, the social graces, being polite, showing respect and personal interactions are more important than being on time.
- It's just that I don't have the personality to sit still and make sure to keep my laughter at a low tone and pretend I am interested in mundane things for the sake of social graces.
- From an early age, children are trained in etiquette and the social graces.
- High-minded citizens petitioned Congress to vote in a new era of enlightened laws to cultivate the social graces.
- Nanotechnology may cure chemically-based paranoia and depression forever, but it will not confer social graces on the awkward - or compassion on the intolerant.
- Her family was well connected, and Griffith received an education suitable for a fine lady in polite literature, French, poetry, and the social graces.
- He has a marvelous ability to handle women - with all the social graces.
- Campus interviewers often rush through résumés, looking more for future graduates with potential, which may or may not amount to social graces.
- It's not everyday someone just offers you food, so good graces and manners were what he needed at this moment in time.
- There is a stereotyped image of the virus writer: male, in his teens or early twenties, technically talented but lacking in all the social graces.
- My tutor hadn't explained the social graces: how, to some extent at least, all players around the table often want the same outcome for the dice and build up some camaraderie.
- In Japan, by observing all the social graces, I could often pass for a native.
- Perhaps there you can learn some of the basics of the social graces.
3(in Christian belief) the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings. Example sentencesExamples - The truth was that they were saved by grace and that all spiritual blessings were theirs in Christ.
- They know that they stand accepted by God, forgiven and adopted into God's family, solely on the basis of God's free grace.
- We all know that Paul's letters emphasise salvation by grace through faith.
- Does it bring glory to the Son of God as the only dispenser of grace to guilty sinners - and the only way to God?
- Every true Christian is evidence of that, for every one is a sinner saved by grace.
- He is worthy of worship and calls sinners saved by grace to this great endeavour.
- Even at our best, we are pretty ambiguous characters, and it is only by God's grace in Christ that we have hope of salvation.
- We are saved by God's free grace, through faith in Christ's atoning death and resurrection.
- Harvey also talked about God's grace in his life though.
- He gave away much that others might enjoy the treasure of God's grace in Jesus Christ.
- It is faith in Jesus Christ, whose righteousness has been imputed to us by the free grace of God.
- The book approached the issue of salvation, God's grace, and human free will from a Calvinist perspective.
- Not only does God give us wisdom and His grace, we are blessed with His qualities, which is to be Christ-like.
- If rejection is our dilemma, grace is our salvation.
- The chief remedy for sin, poverty and dirt should be the gospel of God's free grace.
- How can people appreciate the wonder of grace, forgiveness and salvation if they have not first learnt about God's holiness and the gravity of sin?
- Our main message is salvation through grace alone, by faith alone, through Christ alone.
- Paul's gospel is that salvation comes by grace through faith, to Jew and Gentile alike.
- In a general sense this miracle speaks to us about the dawn of the gospel of grace through Jesus Christ.
- They have no understanding of the gospel, no knowledge of God's free grace, and no experience of the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit.
Synonyms favour, good will, generosity, kindness, benefaction, beneficence, indulgence - 3.1 A divinely given talent or blessing.
the graces of the Holy Spirit Example sentencesExamples - Perseverance is an unmerited gift of grace, just as is also the initial turning of the will to God in faith and penitence.
- The theme will be thanksgiving for the many graces and blessings we receive.
- In our day and age, we have to be thankful for small graces.
- He didn't accept that her experiences were divine graces and ordered her to terminate her ecstasies as soon as she felt them beginning.
- The seven deadly sins and their antitheses, the four cardinal virtues and three heavenly graces, provide the book's organising principle.
- For John, mystical theology is a gift of grace by which a prayerful person stands before and has some kind of experience of the presence of God.
- By God's great grace, his prayers for my salvation have now been answered.
- A fair number of the devotees we spoke to believed that this is the most auspicious moment of the festival and everyone who is present and sees the flat being hoisted, receives special blessings and graces from the Holy Mother.
- That's not only uncharitable, it's an almost guaranteed way to blind oneself to all the graces of the sacrament of Holy Orders.
- First they acknowledge publicly their commitment to the Catholic Church and receive the graces of the sacraments but they also enjoy being fussed over, dressing in new clothes and getting lots of money!
- Peace grows when the graces of God and the blessings of Earth are not considered possessions to be protected but divine gifts intended for all.
- 3.2 The condition or fact of being favored by someone.
he fell from grace because of drug use at the Olympics Example sentencesExamples - Burdened by addiction and avarice, Fatty's rise to stardom soon became a fall from grace.
- Fella went on to say that after this fall from grace, everybody expressed shock, shock I tell you, that this man was so reckless.
- Just when Bangalore's lakes are heading towards a fall from grace, lake wardens are all set to rejuvenate them.
- But it suffered a spectacular fall from grace when about £2bn of its funds ran into severe trouble as equity markets plunged.
- In its infancy, the process fell from grace because of production problems.
- I will put aside my own feelings in order to examine the facts of his fall from grace.
- The genre's current fall from grace stems from the fact that it is dominated by the same DJs now as it was in 1988.
- Spending his final years a man in exile, Ray lived a life where drugs and alcohol caused his fall from grace.
- It's been an abrupt fall from grace for the author.
- Richardson's sad fall from grace began with his addiction to cocaine.
- Chris, then, has fallen from grace and is living in a kind of purgatory, respected but terribly alone, knowing he can never be forgiven because the person he wronged is dead.
- We always knew that their descent into the heinous crimes that they once covered with alleged-virtue would make for a magnificent fall from grace.
- A fall from grace does not take much: a drunken tumble, a night out with the wrong man, an inadvertent outburst, a struggle with dependency.
- Suffice to say, Harry's homecoming does not see him greeted with open arms, and the majority of the story is concerned with Harry's attempts to regain Hannah's good graces.
- In fact, her perfect fall from grace earns nothing but fresh punishment for her lack of attention to detail.
- He had two Oscar nominations, before falling from grace and into an ugly drug habit.
- They themselves have fallen from grace in recent years, with the exploits of their junior footballers taking most, if not all, of the limelight away from the hurlers.
- Stevens isn't referring to conflict of interests here, but his words are the best assessment of the Supreme Court's fall from grace.
Synonyms favour, approval, approbation, acceptance, commendation, esteem, regard, respect, preferment, liking, support, goodwill favour, good will, generosity, kindness, benefaction, beneficence, indulgence
4A period officially allowed for payment of a sum due or for compliance with a law or condition, especially an extended period granted as a special favor. another three days' grace Example sentencesExamples - Subjects were allowed a period of grace, 20% of the period covered by the previous prescription, to obtain another prescription of the drug.
- Legislation regarding the taxing of bookmakers was going to be amended and they would be given six months' grace under the old payment system.
- Late fees now average $29, and most cards have reduced the late payment grace period from 14 days to zero days.
- However, to avoid a potentially chaotic situation, a 6-month grace period is provided before any regulations may be made invalid.
- The loans were provided at favourable terms, and a period of grace for their repayment was sometimes granted, with significantly low interest rates.
- Its purpose was to give borrowers a period of grace before repayments of principal become due.
- He says that the Mars mission could take place as early as 2009, but the two years' grace period allows the agency to spread the cost around that much more.
- However the local policy of 3 months grace is not a rule of law, and the overall conduct needs to be looked at.
- Quick work was necessary to allow adequate time for the implementation of the legislation within the year's grace allowed by the court, he said.
- The loans are extended for up to 12 years with three-year grace period and are available for almost all sectors of the economy.
- In February, the plaintiff again sought and was granted a further grace period to March 31, 1995.
- If the patient cannot pay immediately, a period of grace is allowed, but he maintained that this is not the norm.
- The offer of a period of grace is a critical factor in the underwriting of this form of business.
- Effectively, the family can be given a year's grace before the court grants possession.
- The pilot scheme involves cars which are not insured being removed from the road while the drivers are given a period of grace usually seven days in which to organise insurance and recover their vehicles.
- The company has a 30-day grace period to decide whether to make the payments.
- Just before you know you may miss a payment, ask for a cure, which is a 30-day grace from your mortgage payment.
- If they are initially below 30 per cent, but then rise to above 35 per cent, the period of grace shall be limited to one year.
- Of course, it is upon this 12-month grace period that Oakley wish to rely.
- The loan should be repaid within 10 years and has a 5-year grace period and preferential interest.
Synonyms deferment, deferral, postponement, suspension, putting back, putting off, adjournment, delay, shelving, rescheduling, interruption, arrest, pause 5A short prayer of thanks said before or after a meal. before dinner the Reverend Newman said grace Example sentencesExamples - Daddy wasn't religious - none of us were - but he had always said grace before meals, ever since I could remember.
- Rev Armstrong said the grace before meal and Fr Maginn said the thanksgiving afterwards.
- I am grateful to my parents in a way as I have never been forced to go to church or to say grace before meals (except at junior school).
- She ensured that they said their nightly prayers and grace before meals.
- They don't leave their rooms until everything is tidy and say grace before every meal.
- The boys eat dinner together with each set of grandparents, say grace before meals, and read or share stories at night.
- You two don't say grace at meals, or kiss each other good morning, good night or good-bye.
- Finally cubes of sweet juicy mango and fragrant curry leaves were added and we sat down to enjoy a meal with all the family after saying grace in Malayalam.
- In many graces, we ask God's blessing for good food and good company.
- Twain joined Livy at prayers and grace before meals.
- Every time you eat (whether it's a snack or a seven-course meal), say grace.
- Neither of my parents had been overly religious although Da had insisted on saying grace before meals and he refused to do any work on a Sunday.
- Say a simple little grace before meals, even on the odd day
Synonyms prayer of thanks, thanksgiving, blessing, benediction 6His", "Her", or "Your""GraceUsed as forms of description or address for a duke, duchess, or archbishop. His Grace, the Duke of Atholl Example sentencesExamples - Last week, His Grace, Archbishop Clifford has given his blessing to the plans and sent his adviser on church buildings, to inspect our parish properties.
- He was plotting to overthrow the counsel, and even yourself, Your Grace.
- Back on the waterfront, the most senior man among Reservists, Major General His Grace the Duke of Westminster, paid a visit to the Royal Naval and Royal Marines Reservists at the Royal Naval HQ Merseyside in Liverpool.
- Again, thank you, Your Grace, for rescuing me from that vile man.
- Will His Grace, the Duke of Westchester, be attending the ball, Miss Maria?
- This is a state-of-the-art vessel, Your Grace.
- I am sorry, Your Grace, but I could never trust myself with that responsibility.
- Interestingly, the Archbishop of Canterbury has so far declined to comment but spokesmen say, somewhat unenthusiastically, that His Grace could ‘see the value’ in inviting them.
- Before she could change her mind, he said quickly to the Cardinal, ‘Thank you for the lesson, Your Grace,’ and turned and ran from the courtyard.
- Finally, I must acknowledge the kindness of His Grace The Duke of Norfolk in allowing access to his archives at Arundel Castle.
- I am sorry, Your Grace, but perhaps I am misunderstanding something.
- ‘It is a pleasure, Your Grace,’ she said, and bowed with a certain level of strength and humility, which overshadowed Elizabeth's own nature.
- You aren't just trying to protect me are you, Your Grace?
- Father replied that he had once made the acquaintance of the Duke of Covington and he would write to His Grace and see if he could help me secure a good position.
- She will be unveiling a recently sculpted bronze head of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, which has been presented to Sandown Park by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.
- Nathaniel is a Duke and can either be called Your Grace or the Duke or the Duke of Hartford.
- The Archbishop of York, His Grace Dr David Hope, enthusiastically gave the idea his support and preparations began.
- My father is William Seymour, brother to His Grace the Duke of Somerset.
- The awards will be presented by His Grace, the Duke of Gloucester, in the Royal Pavilion on Tuesday, July 1.
verbɡrāsɡreɪs 1with object and adverbial Do honor or credit to (someone or something) by one's presence. she bowed out from the sport she has graced for two decades Example sentencesExamples - They are without doubt one of the most entertaining live rock shows to ever grace the stage.
- And how does he intend to unseat one of the greatest champions that has ever graced these parts?
- However, I'm pretty sure that his biggest claim to fame is that of being one of the best live performers ever to grace a concert hall or stadium.
- Greaves, a goal-scorer of legendary prowess, is one of the greatest footballers ever to grace the English game.
- Mr Palmer said: " Manchester has delivered a magnificent stadium that will grace the city and will be a worthy legacy for Manchester and British sport.
- For those of you who have never heard of the man, he was one of the wittiest, cleverest and funniest comedians that ever graced this earth.
- If you have followed my guidelines, you will have undoubtedly created the most perfect email to ever grace the Internet!
- Flex congratulates Don, one of the nicest guys to ever grace the sport, on his successful surgery.
- Tonight is also boring, because Sky has not graced us with her presence.
- While in Boston he teamed up with Johnny Sain, another pitcher, and the two became one of the greatest duos ever to grace a baseball diamond.
- He is perhaps one of the most honest and caring people to ever grace our screens.
- He was selected on the team of Centenary announced five years ago and is regarded as one of the finest footballers ever to grace the Gaelic fields.
- Botham, 48, is widely considered to be one of the greatest all-rounders ever to grace the game.
- Sampras refused to be drawn on the question of whether he was the greatest player ever to grace the game.
- It was great because we got to stay next door to my in-laws, and my mom, probably one of the best cooks ever to grace this planet, lived around the corner.
- She was fiddling with the oven when she noticed I had graced her with my presence.
- It is fitting that the second half of the top ten best performances of 2003 should include one of the finest Sligo bands ever to grace a stage.
- John Taylor is acknowledged as one of the greatest hurlers ever to play for Laois and indeed one of the finest exponents ever to grace the ancient game.
- She turned full time professional in 1979 and came to the attention of the great Mark Murphy, one of the most accomplished and respected jazz vocalists ever to grace a stage.
- A Tour of pure nostalgia with some of the greatest artists ever to grace the concert stage in Ireland will be coming to the north west next month.
Synonyms dignify, distinguish, add distinction to, add dignity to, honour, bestow honour on, favour, enhance, add lustre to, magnify, ennoble, glorify, elevate, make lofty, aggrandize, upgrade - 1.1 (of a person or thing) be an attractive presence in or on; adorn.
Ms. Pasco has graced the front pages of magazines like Elle and Vogue Example sentencesExamples - Jason's sister pulled him into a tight hug, that radiant smile still gracing her lips.
- Neither one moved or spoke, but a soft smile graced both of their mouths as they held each other.
- The boy nodded, a crooked grin gracing his high, rosy cheekbones.
- Her eyes lit up with a star-struck grin gracing her pale, freckled face.
- Before Hamm in January 1997, no woman had ever graced our cover.
- They would grace our otherwise cluttered shelves.
- Huge wooden beams in the bedroom and drawing room once graced an Aberdeen wool mill.
- With small blond curls gracing his head and bright blue eyes, Jake was the object of Nell's affections.
- He is the most gorgeous man to ever grace the planet, plain and simple.
- And he did so in some of the most powerful images ever to grace a billboard.
- One of his prints also graces the entire back cover of the current issue of ‘Harvest’ - the Diocesan quarterly magazine.
- It was April 10, 1912, and in less than an hour the most majestic ship to ever grace the seas would begin her historical maiden voyage.
- The work will also grace the cover of the 45,000 programs distributed all across the state.
- Her images grace everything from linens and bedding to stationery products and floor coverings.
- Some of his mural paintings grace the Synod Palace in Sofia and Varna Cathedral.
- I am delighted to learn an image of the sculpture will grace the new twenty-dollar bill.
- A special table will grace the Great Chamber of a historic house in York in memory of one of its volunteers.
- His woodcarvings still grace the Hotel Marauw and Biak's House of Arts.
- What a contrast that would be from the spoiled, overpaid and selfish athletes who normally grace the covers of sports magazines.
- Huge oaks, cedars and wisteria grace the 1,300 acre stretch of rambling greens known as Deer Park.
Synonyms adorn, embellish, decorate, furnish, ornament, add ornament to, enhance
Phrases be in someone's good (or bad) graces Be regarded by someone with favor (or disfavor). Example sentencesExamples - Rule #21 talks about how to get back into the good graces of the group.
- Right now, Christians only need obey seven basic rules of morality to be in God's good graces.
- We introduced ourselves and he promised coffee around the halfway point of our night, and by then he was in my good graces.
- Do you honestly think that after pleasing forty clients this week alone that I'd need to be in your good graces to survive the month?
- In this multicultural world, people from those other cultures demand that they be treated as equal, command the same respect and be in our good graces.
- The Lady Morrigan herself has commended you on your fine performances, and suggests that if you keep this up, you will be in her good graces.
- Though the people that hung out with him really didn't like him, they preferred to be in his good graces than otherwise.
- She guessed that it probably belonged to one of the slaves that were in the queen 's good graces.
- It's been a long struggle since then, but I think I'm back in their good graces now.
- I knew that the second my Dad tasted it Steve would forever be in his good graces, due to the fact that my Dad is a slave to his taste buds.
there but for the grace of God (go I) Used to acknowledge one's good fortune in avoiding another's mistake or misfortune. Example sentencesExamples - It's the subject matter, in effect you're saying there but for the grace of God - I wouldn't have wanted to have made any of those moral decisions.
- When I see it from a professional point of view I think there but for the grace of God go I, but it hits you very differently when you are a parent - it was my Nicola, not just anyone.
- You know there but for the grace of God… I was just lucky that after my mother died my Aunty Linda was around to take Father and I under her wing otherwise heaven knows where we would have ended up what with his drinking so bad and all.
- Proprietors themselves, perhaps feeling that there but for the grace of God go they, discourage serious criticism of their rivals.
- My attitude is, there but for the grace of God…’ ‘When I hear people moaning, I think they should come and sit in here for a week and see what goes on and the heartbreak.’
- And we know at one level that there but for the grace of God, or fate, or elementary physics, we could all have been victims.
In a willing and happy (or reluctant and resentful) manner. Example sentencesExamples - By accepting the residents' concerns and the council's decision with good grace, they would have emerged with a few more friends.
- Certain things I can forgive; occasionally I have forgotten how to spell my own name so I smile with good grace upon atrocious spellers and look with kindly benevolence upon the overuse of commas.
- He would, by his own admission, prefer not to have to address large groups, though he approaches this part of his job with good grace.
- And residents and community leaders are now calling for developers to accept the decision with good grace and abandon the entire scheme.
- They seem to be very against any form of control for what they do, and I have never in my life met anyone who was willing to stop smoking with good grace when asked.
- He accepted his failure with good grace and went back to the Senate.
- It was very hard fought, but always with good grace.
- There was no train anywhere near - nothing even shown on the indicator boards - and yet everyone took it with good grace, and sat patiently, quietly, reading or just looking around.
- You take your tumbles with good grace and always come up smiling.
- If one has apologised, one should accept it with good grace.
Synonyms willingly, without hesitation, unhesitatingly, gladly, happily, cheerfully, with pleasure, without reluctance, ungrudgingly, voluntarily
Three beautiful goddesses (Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne), daughters of Zeus. They were believed to personify and bestow charm, grace, and beauty. Example sentencesExamples - A portion of my research has been concerned with oblivion: the figure of Lethe, mother of the Graces.
- From two superb Bouchers and a Ricci which was once with the Graces in the collection of Woburn Abbey, we move among portraits of the great Scottish patrons of the era.
- Taking up his brush at the age of 38 to paint Nature Adorned by the Graces, Rubens was out to make an impression, and he knew that he couldn't do it alone.
- The figure of Hope, turned away from the viewer, is particularly reminiscent of antique and contemporary depictions of the Graces, which often have one figure facing the other two.
- Mighty Zeus, the King, commanded the Graces, ‘Go to the goddess of the Earth to appease.’
- King Citheron and the Graces wear Roman togas.
- David re-created this arrangement (but the author does not think it useful to mention it) when he showed Lesacre in 1807-8 and his last large painting, Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Graces, in 1824.
- Wit befriends Venus and the Graces, while Learning allies herself with Minerva and the Virtues.
- The group's preoccupations - love, beauty, poetry - are indicated by the divinities most often invoked in Sappho: Aphrodite, the Graces, and the Muses.
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin gratia, from gratus ‘pleasing, thankful’; related to grateful. |