grace

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Charming, pleasing qualities.

   “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.”

2. (countable)A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.

   “It has become less common to say grace before having dinner.”

3. (countable)In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.
4. (countable)A grace note.

   “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.”

5. (uncountable)Elegant movement; elegance of movement; balance or poise.

   “The dancer moved with grace and strength.”

6. (uncountable)An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which they are free of at least part of their normal obligations towards the creditor.

   “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'.”

7. (uncountable)Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.

   “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.”

8. (countable, uncountable)An act or decree of the governing body of an English university.
9. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Mercy, pardon.

verb

1. (transitive)To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.

   “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.”

2. (transitive)To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.

   “He might, at his pleasure, grace […]or disgrace whom he would in court.”

3. (transitive)To supply with heavenly grace.

   “Thy first publique miracle graceth a marriage”

4. (transitive)To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

   “For D and E, the G and A fingers are generally used for gracing, though E is sometimes more conveniently graced by F#.”

name

1. (countable)A female given name from English.

   “To The Handsome Mistress Grace Potter: As is your name, so is your comely face / Touch'd everywhere with such a diffused grace /”

   “Grace does not belie her name; for she is indeed a sweet girl, modest and unassuming, and appearing to be unconscious of having done anything great or noble. - OBSERVER, Dec.16, 1838.”

   “They named me Grace and waited for a light and agile dancer. / But some trick of genes mixed me up / And instead I turned out big and black and burly.”

   “Had I given birth to a daughter of my own, I'd like to have called her Grace, a classic and poetic name, one that illuminates a person of dignity and poise.”

   “Whether at work or as the protective single mother to her teenage daughter, Abbie (Grace Kaufman), Margaret is a model of calculated control.”

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11. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment.

    “Since the Tibetan plateau contains a lot of “closed” catchments, from which meltwater cannot easily escape, large amounts of melting could happen without GRACE detecting them.”