grace /grās/

1. Easy elegance in form or manner
2. Any unassumingly attractive or pleasing personal quality
3. Favour
4. Kindness, good will
5. Pardon (archaic)
6. The undeserved mercy of God
7. Divine influence
8. The state of the soul freed from sin and assured of eternal life (theology)
9. A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal
10. An ornament (eg trill, turn, acciaccatura) consisting of notes additional to the melody or harmony (music)
11. An act or decree of the governing body of an English university
12. 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)
13. A short period of time in hand before a deadline is reached (see days of grace below)
14. (in pl) favour, friendship (with good)
15. (with cap in pl) the three sister goddesses in whom beauty was deified (the Greek Charites), Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia (classical myth)

1. To mark with favour
2. To adorn

graced adjective (Shakespeare, etc)

Favoured, endowed with grace or graces, virtuous, chaste

graceˈful adjective

1. Elegant and easy
2. Marked by propriety or fitness, becoming
3. Having or conferring grace, in any sense

graceˈfully adverb

graceˈfulness noun

graceˈless adjective

1. Lacking grace or excellence
2. Without mercy or favour (obsolete)
3. Depraved (archaic)
4. 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

1. Days allowed for the payment of a note or bill of exchange after it falls due (in England before 1972 legally three days)
2. 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

1. Divine grace so bestowed as to lead to salvation (theology)
2. 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

GRACE /grās/ (telecommunications)

Group routing and charging equipment (an automatic telephone system by which all calls, trunk as well as local, can be dialled directly by subscribers, and by which all STD calls are charged)

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