单词 | social graces |
释义 | > as lemmassocial graces c. Usually in plural. An attractively elegant, refined, or accomplished mode of behaviour. In later use chiefly in social graces: social ease or accomplishment; good manners.See also airs and graces at air n.1 Phrases 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > mode or manner of behaviour or conduct > a particular stylec1412 grace1607 daddyism1892 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > freedom from awkwardness in style or behaviour easiness1567 social graces1726 ease1750 1607 S. Hieron Dignitie of Script. in Wks. (1620) I. 76 It is a common grace of some, to vse some words or sentences of scripture insteed of iests and prouerbs in their common talke. 1608 S. Rowlands Humors Looking Glasse 21 Then forth they goe after the drunken pace, Which God he knowes was with a reeling grace. 1725 G. Odingsells Bath Unmask'd ii. x. 30 Have you practis'd those few Graces of Behaviour towards a Lover as I taught you? 1726 Modest Def. Chastity 78 Meet him in Company, you'd think him a Composition of social Graces; so much Humanity, Friendlyness, Courtesy, good Humor appears. 1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor I. iii. 17 Boarding-schools, where..airs, graces, mouth primming, shoulder-setting and elbow-holding are studied. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. xii. 310 The graces and good qualities which she retained..rendered her house a sort of academy of good breeding. 1899 T. D. Sullivan Select. Songs & Poems 92 Memories of the social graces, The wit, the worth, I've met with there, 'Midst genial hearts and friendly faces. 1940 T. Wolfe & E. C. Aswell You can't go Home Again xvi. 258 He..knew himself to be unschooled in the social graces that such occasions demanded. 1963 F. C. Crews Pooh Perplex 111 Christopher Robin is being..drilled in all the ‘graces’ of the would-be aristocracy. 1989 Movie No. 33. 3/2 She has a strong ‘boroughs accent’ and few social graces. < as lemmas |
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