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grace

noun
/ɡɹeɪs/US

Etymology

From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful. The word displaced the native Middle English held, hield (“grace”) (from Old English held, hyld (“grace”)), Middle English este (“grace, favour, pleasure”) (from Old English ēst (“grace, kindness, favour”)), Middle English athmede(n) (“grace”) (from Old English ēadmēdu (“grace”)), Middle English are, ore (“grace, mercy, honour”) (from Old English ār (“honour, grace, kindness, mercy”)).

  1. derived from *gʷerH-✻
  2. derived from grātia
  3. derived from grace
  4. inherited from grace

Definitions

  1. 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. A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.

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

  3. In the games of patience or solitaire

    In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.

  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. A grace note.

    2. Elegant movement

      Elegant movement; elegance of movement; balance or poise.

      • The dancer moved with grace and strength.

    3. An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which they are free of at least part of…

      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.

    4. Free and undeserved favour, especially of God

      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

    5. An act or decree of the governing body of an English university.

    6. Mercy, pardon.

    7. To adorn

      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.

    8. To dignify or raise by an act of favour

      To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.

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

    9. To supply with heavenly grace.

      • Thy first publique miracle graceth a marriage

    10. 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#.

    11. 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.

    12. A surname.

    13. A placename in the United States

      A placename in the United States:

    14. 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.

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Derived

airs and graces, begrace, bowgrace, but for the grace of God, cooperating grace, coup de grace, coup-de-grace, covenant of grace, engrace, expectative grace, fall from grace, free grace, good graces, grace and favor, grace and favour, grace-cup, graceful, graceless, gracelike, grace note, grace period, gracesome, grace stroke, graceworthy, gracism, gracist, heart of grace, herb of grace, irresistible grace, lack-grace, means of grace, misgrace, overgrace, prevenient grace, saving grace, say grace, scapegrace, social grace, special grace, state of grace · +9 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at grace. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at grace. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at grace

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA