| 单词 | saving your grace |
| 释义 | > as lemmassaving (also †save) your grace d. saving (also †save) your grace and variants: (frequently used to qualify a preceding or following remark) ‘if I may say so’, ‘without meaning tooffend’. Cf. save prep. 1. Now historical and archaic. [After Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French sauve vostre grace, (13th cent. in Old French; French sauf votre grâce).] ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [phrase] > by permission of > indicating apology saving (also save) your gracec1330 c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 554 Sauue ȝoure grace, wene ich hit nowt Hit euere com in his þout. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 92 After my feble witte me thinke, saue þaire grace, þat it es mykill mare. 1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 77 Sir saue your grace: your speech I not gain say. 1888 tr. C. Du Bois-Melly Nicolas Muss 55 That will I not, monsieur, saving your grace! 1992 L. E. Modesitt Towers of Sunset (1993) cxxix. 468 ‘If they have problems, they can come to Hyel or to me. Will that be satisfactory?’ ‘Saving your grace, yes.’ < as lemmas |
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