Definition of Grace

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Definition of Grace

Grace

The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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.

The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.

The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.

Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune.

Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.

Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.

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.

The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.

Thanks.

A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.

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.

An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.

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.

To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.

To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.

To supply with heavenly grace.

To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

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Grace Quotations

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mohandas Gandhi

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin Luther

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
John Calvin

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Saint Augustine

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Pope John Paul II

Grace Translations

Grace in Dutch is Gratie
grace in Dutch is sierlijkheid
grace in German is Anmut {f}, Gnade
grace in Italian is grazia, grazia
grace in Latin is venia, decor
grace in Spanish is gracia, garbo

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