grace
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful.
The word displaced the native Middle English held, hield (“grace”) (from Old English held, hyld (“grace”)), Middle English este (“grace, favour, pleasure”) (from Old English ēst (“grace, kindness, favour”)), Middle English athmede(n) (“grace”) (from Old English ēadmēdu (“grace”)), Middle English are, ore (“grace, mercy, honour”) (from Old English ār (“honour, grace, kindness, mercy”)).
Inflected forms:
form: graces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: graces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gracing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: graced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: graced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Charming, pleasing qualities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Princess brought grace to an otherwise dull and boring party.
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing.
gloss: A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It has become less common to say grace before having dinner.
gloss: In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A grace note.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Trill being the most usual Grace, is usually made in Closes, Cadences, and when on a long Note Exclamation or Passion is expressed, there the Trill is made in the latter part of such Note; but most usually upon binding Notes and such Notes as precede the closing Note.
gloss: Elegant movement; elegance of movement; balance or poise.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The dancer moved with grace and strength.
gloss: An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which they are free of at least part of their normal obligations towards the creditor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The repayment of the loan starts after a three-year grace.
With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'.
gloss: Favor, sanction or beneficence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The minister has extended his grace to our effort.
gloss: Favor, sanction or beneficence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: Divine Providence, Providence
divine grace
the grace of God
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed vpō me, was not in vaine: But I laboured more abundantly then they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me:
When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her. Moreover, from her earliest days the bairn had some glimmerings of grace.
gloss: An act or decree of the governing body of an English university.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Mercy, pardon.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He graced the room with his presence.
He graced the room by simply being there.
His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.
Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.
We are graced with wreaths of victory.
I wasn't at the launch back in 2006, but I had attended Siemens and TPE unveiling the type's mock-up back in April 2004, with a picture that graced the cover of RAIL 486.
gloss: To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He might, at his pleasure, grace […]or disgrace whom he would in court.
gloss: To supply with heavenly grace.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Thy first publique miracle graceth a marriage
gloss: To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For D and E, the G and A fingers are generally used for gracing, though E is sometimes more conveniently graced by F#.
Synonyms: mense
Related words: God's gift
Derived words: airs and graces
begrace
bowgrace
but for the grace of God
cooperating grace
coup de grace
coup-de-grace
covenant of grace
engrace
expectative grace
fall from grace
free grace
good graces
grace and favor
grace and favour
grace-cup
graceful
graceless
gracelike
grace note
grace period
gracesome
grace stroke
graceworthy
gracism
gracist
heart of grace
herb of grace
irresistible grace
lack-grace
means of grace
misgrace
overgrace
prevenient grace
saving grace
say grace
scapegrace
social grace
special grace
state of grace
there but for the grace of God go I
time of grace
ungrace
with bad grace
with good grace
with ill grace
year of grace
your grace
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