expectative grace
noun
Now historical a mandate given by a pope or king granting advance right of succession to an ecclesiastical benefice.
Origin
Late 15th century.
- savings certificate
- saving scheme
- savings institution
- savings rate
- savings ratio
- savings scheme
- savin-leaved
- savin oil
- savin top
- savior
- savior's blanket
- savior's flannel
- saviour
- saviouress
- saviour's blanket
- saviour's flannel
- saviourship
- saviour sibling
- Savi's warbler
- savoir faire
- savoir vivre
- Savonarola, Girolamo
- Savonarolan
- savonette
- Savonius