grace

grace1 [ greıs ] noun **

▸ 1 beautiful movement/look

▸ 2 kind/pleasant behavior

▸ 3 love/kindness God gives

▸ 4 prayer of thanks

▸ 5 extra time to so something

▸ 6 grace note

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) uncount a smooth and beautiful way of moving:

She moved with natural grace.

a ) a simple and beautiful quality:

the grace of Manueline architecture

2. ) uncount kind, polite, and fair behavior:

She captures the character's essential gentleness and grace.

have the (good) grace to do something: He should have the grace to admit he was wrong.

with (good/a good) grace (=in a pleasant and willing way): Davis accepted the defeat with good grace.

with bad/a bad/an ill grace (=in an unpleasant and unwilling way): She responded with an ill grace to our appeal for help.

a ) graces plural skills that are necessary for polite or friendly relationships with other people

3. ) uncount the love and kindness that God gives to people:

by/through God's grace: It was only by God's grace that we were saved.

a ) the condition of people when they are loved and forgiven by God:

state of grace: He died in a state of grace.

4. ) singular or uncount a short prayer that some people say before they eat to thank God for the food:

Eric, would you like to say grace?

5. ) uncount extra time that you have or that someone allows you to have in order to do something such as pay money you owe: GRACE PERIOD:

Could you give me a couple of days' grace to pay the rent?

6. ) count a GRACE NOTE

be in someone's good/bad graces

to be in a situation in which someone is pleased or angry with you:

Johnson appears to be back in the president's good graces.

His/Her/Your Grace

used for talking about or to a DUKE, a DUCHESS, or an ARCHBISHOP

the (three) Graces

three beautiful sister GODDESSES from ancient Greek stories

there but for the grace of God (go I)

used for saying that if you were less lucky you might be in the same bad situation as someone else

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grace

grace 2 [ greıs ] verb transitive

1. ) to make something more attractive, pleasing, or interesting:

Her photograph graced many a magazine cover.

2. ) if someone important graces a group or an event, they go to it. This word is often used in a humorous way to show that someone does not often come to a particular event or has arrived very late:

How kind of you to grace us with your presence.