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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 save /sāv/ transitive verb- To rescue
- To bring or keep out of danger
- To bring safely out of evil
- To protect
- To preserve
- To prevent or avoid the loss, expenditure, or performance of, or the gain of by an opponent
- To reserve
- To spare
- To deliver from the power of sin and from its consequences
- To be economical in the use of
- To hoard
- To (enter an instruction to) store (data) on a tape or disk (computing)
- To prevent (a goal) from being scored
- To obviate, to prevent
- To be in time for (eg the post; archaic)
intransitive verb- To be economical
- To reserve esp money for future use
- To act as a saviour
preposition Except conjunction- Were it not that
- Unless
noun- An act of saving, esp in games
- An instance by a relief pitcher of successfully preserving a narrow lead at the end of a game (baseball)
- A computer instruction to save material onto a tape or disk
ORIGIN: Fr sauver, from L salvāre, from salvus safe savˈable adjective savˈableness noun saved adjective saˈver noun saˈving adjective - Protecting
- Preserving
- Redeeming
- Securing salvation (theology)
- Frugal
- Making a reservation (esp law)
- Directed towards the avoidance of loss rather than the making of profit
preposition Excepting noun- The action of the verb
- Something which is saved
- (in pl) money laid aside for future use
- A reservation (law)
saˈvingly adverb saˈvingness noun saveˈ-all noun - A contrivance intended to save anything from being wasted or damaged
- A pinafore or overall (dialect)
- A miser
adjective Stingy save as you earn noun A government-operated savings scheme in which regular deductions are made from one's earnings (abbrev SAYE) saveˈgard transitive verb (Spenser) To guard, protect saving clause noun A legal clause, or a statement, in which a reservation or condition is made saving game noun A policy or procedure aimed rather at avoiding loss than at making a profit saving grace see under grace savings and loan association noun (US) A building society savings bank noun A bank established to encourage thrift by taking small deposits, investing under regulations for safety, and giving compound interest savings certificate noun A certificate of having invested a sum of money in government funds, the investment being free of income tax and capital gains tax savings ratio noun The percentage of disposable income that is saved in an economy save appearances - To keep up an appearance of wealth, comfort, consistency, harmony, propriety, etc
- To make hypothesis agree with observation (astronomy, Milton)
save (some)one's bacon, save one's face, save one's neck, save one's skin, save the mark see under bacon, face, neck, skin and mark1 save up To accumulate or hold for some purpose by refraining from spending or using save you (archaic) A greeting, God keep you |