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grâce
, distinction
, répit
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Grace
- (n.) Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune.
- (n.) Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
- (n.) A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.
- (v. t.) To supply with heavenly grace.
- (n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
- (n.) The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
- (n.) A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.
- (v. t.) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
- (n.) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.
- (n.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.
- (n.) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.
- (v. t.) To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.
- (n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.
- (n.) The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.
- (v. t.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
- (n.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse.
- (n.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.
- (n.) Thanks.
Synonyms:
Adorn, Beautify, Blessing, Deck, Decorate, Embellish, Gracility, Ornament, Seemliness, Thanksgiving,
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• Graced
- (a.) Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable.
- (imp. & p. p.) of Grace
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• Graceless
- (a.) Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.
- (a.) Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4.
Synonyms:
Gauche, Ungraceful,
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