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grace /grās/ noun- Easy elegance in form or manner
- Any unassumingly attractive or pleasing personal quality
- Favour
- Kindness, good will
- Pardon (archaic)
- The undeserved mercy of God
- Divine influence
- The state of the soul freed from sin and assured of eternal life (theology)
- A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal
- An ornament (eg trill, turn, acciaccatura) consisting of notes additional to the melody or harmony (music)
- An act or decree of the governing body of an English university
- A ceremonious title in addressing a duke or duchess, an archbishop, or formerly a king or queen (usu with cap, as Your Grace, His/Her Grace)
- A short period of time in hand before a deadline is reached (see days of grace below)
- (in pl) favour, friendship (with good)
- (with cap in pl) the three sister goddesses in whom beauty was deified (the Greek Charites), Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia (classical myth)
transitive verb- To mark with favour
- To adorn
ORIGIN: Fr grâce, from L grātia favour, from grātus agreeable graced adjective (Shakespeare, etc) Favoured, endowed with grace or graces, virtuous, chaste graceˈful adjective - Elegant and easy
- Marked by propriety or fitness, becoming
- Having or conferring grace, in any sense
graceˈfully adverb graceˈfulness noun graceˈless adjective - Lacking grace or excellence
- Without mercy or favour (obsolete)
- Depraved (archaic)
- Indecorous
graceˈlessly adverb graceˈlessness noun grace-and-faˈvour adjective (of a residence) belonging to the British sovereign and granted rent-free to a person of importance (also with caps) grace cup noun A cup or health drunk at the end of a feast or meal, after the final grace grace note noun (music) A note introduced as an embellishment, not being essential to the harmony or melody airs and graces Affectedly elegant and refined manners and behaviour days of grace - Days allowed for the payment of a note or bill of exchange after it falls due (in England before 1972 legally three days)
- Such an allowable period after which an insurance premium becomes due
fall from grace To backslide, to lapse from the state of grace and salvation, or from favour saving grace - Divine grace so bestowed as to lead to salvation (theology)
- A compensating virtue or quality (informal)
take heart of grace (archaic) To pluck up courage (origin of ‘of grace’ uncertain) with (a) good (or bad) grace In amiable (or ungracious) fashion year of grace Year of the Christian era, AD |