grace
IPA: grˈeɪs
noun
- (countable, uncountable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
- (countable) A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
- (countable, card games) In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.
- (countable, music) A grace note.
- (uncountable) Elegant movement; balance or poise.
- (uncountable, finance) An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
- (uncountable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.
- An act or decree of the governing body of an English university.
- (countable) A female given name from English.
- (countable) A surname.
- A placename in the United States:
- A minor city in Caribou County, Idaho.
- An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
- A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Issaquena County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Missouri
- An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Silver Bow County, Montana.
- An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.
verb
- (transitive) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
- (transitive) To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
- (transitive) To supply with heavenly grace.
- (transitive, music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
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Examples of "grace" in Sentences
- And grace to anfwer grace* v. But let us haften to the day H y Ki N. s« 229
- The God to whom as its source all grace is to be referred; who in grace completes what in grace He began.
- The promises he made them are included in these commands, for the covenant of grace is a word which he hath commanded,
- And if you knew nothing about the Japanese people before last week, they've certainly shown what the term grace under pressure really means.
- It is not a practiced, educated grace, but the unbought grace of his genius, uttering itself in its beauty and grandeur in the movements of the outward man.
- Virtus in Latin, and vertu in French, may both signify power, virtue, efficacy; but it seems that the term grace more correctly conveys to an English ear the meaning of the Author.
- Many asset that this inability to do good works is physical, and assign the withholding of all grace as its proximate cause; in doing so, they take the term grace in its widest meaning, i.e. every Divine co-operation both in natural and in supernatural good actions.
- He could do the butchering of a hog with the best of grace, and had killed, first and last, so many, that I imagine he could tell the number of squeals, or wrigglings of the porcine tail it took to terminate the life of the animal, after he had given it the _coup de grace_.
- Juno's royal academy, left the language of Billingsgate quite out of my education: hence I am perfectly _illiterate_ in the polite style of the street, and am not fit to converse with the porters and carmen of quality, who grace their diction with the beauties of calling names, and curse their neighbour with a _bonne grace_. "
- _Faith_ I grant is a more radicall, vitall, and necessary grace; but yet not so wholly out of _grace_ with the times, as poore _Zeale_; which yet if by any meanes it might once againe be reduced into favour and practice, before Time sets, and bee no more; I doubt not but Christ would also yet once againe in this evening of the world, come and _Sup_ with us; A favour including all other in it.
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