Definition of Gracious

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Gracious

Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty.

Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent.

Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.

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Gracious Quotations

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.
William Wordsworth

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.
Rick Warren

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
E. Stanley Jones

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
Donald Rumsfeld

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.
Joe Namath

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Horatio Nelson

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

Gracious Translations

gracious in Latin is propitius

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