Word Finder - grace

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Charming, pleasing qualities.

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The Princess brought grace to an otherwise dull and boring party.

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A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.

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

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

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A grace note.

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Elegant movement; balance or poise.

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The dancer moved with grace and strength.

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An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.

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The repayment of the loan starts after a three-year grace.

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Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.

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I’m so grateful to God for the grace that He has given me.

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

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To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.

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He graced the room by simply being there.

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

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To supply with heavenly grace.

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

After grace, they all started passing food.

After a silent grace, they began filling their plates.

He rose with feline grace from the couch and approached, hand outstretched.

With feline grace, he strode across the room.

But this was not enough for the inquisitor-general, who in the following month (April) issued orders to forbid Christians, under severe penalties, having any communication with the Jews or, -after the period of grace, to supply them even with the necessaries of life.

Thus Antigonus succeeded his uncle as " King Antigonus " in the Greek and " Mattathiah the high priest " in the Hebrew by grace of the Parthians.

He moved across the concrete with feline grace and propped himself against a pillar with one broad shoulder.

Denton cultured his grace and worked at presenting the proper image.

The one saving grace was that Elisabeth lay sound asleep, unable to witness his distress.

Aristobulus and his children were conveyed to Rome to grace their conqueror's triumphal procession.

The almshouses, known as St John's hospital, were founded in 1602; and in 1637 a free grammar school was endowed by Lady Grace Manners.

Even at a distance it was obvious that the man was much taller and he rode with a proud kind of grace that her father never possessed.

They paused for a few minutes to say grace and then Carmen responded.

As he strode around the car to the driver's side with his usual grace, it struck her that Denton never looked so nice in casual clothes.

The doctrine of " Emboitement " is contained in the Considerations sur le principe de vie (1705); the preface to the Theodicee (1710); and the Principes de la nature et de la grace (§ 6) (1718).

When admitted they were to give evidence of their desire for salvation "by doing no harm; by doing good of every possible sort; by attending upon all the means of grace."

Divine grace is not necessary for human virtue.

Joyfully enlisting, By thy grace divine, We are on the Lord's side, Savior, we are Thine!

And Brad is simply divine as George's right hand man, playing the coolest guy ever to grace the big screen.

Then conversed they of religion, and ye mightie work ye old dead Luther did doe by ye grace of God.

She was no more than five foot one, he guessed, but she moved with the grace of a much taller woman.

We may therefore assume that, in acts of public worship at any rate, prayer and its magico-religious congeners are at all stages resorted to as a "means of grace," even though such grace do not constitute the expressed object of petition.

The priests in the time of the law of grace shall claim no ownership of worldly possessions.

He received the title by grace, but was not equal to God the Father.

Jortin; and a Letter (1764) to Dr Thomas Leland, who had criticized Warburton's Doctrine of Grace.

The Hebrew phrase is "men of grace," as in v.

Above all may we have grace given us to reverence and keep holy the Sabbath day amid so much awful and general desecration.

Many as the analogies between the processes of grace nature are, here there is none - but a total dissimilarity.

Out this Friday, Jennie and Mikey - both total dullards -unless Grace is going back in, then Mikey must stay.

It lacks smoothness and grace, and is too earthy and business-like.

With 15,000 mercenaries, whom he had to train into Roman discipline, he took Carthage, defeated Gelimer the Vandal king, and carried him captive, in 534, to grace the first triumph witnessed in Constantinople.

They are full of both grace and individuality; the features show excellent draughtsmanship; and the flesh-painting is firm and sound in method, though frequently tending a little to hardness and opacity.

Divine grace originates, maintains and perfects all the good in man, so much so that he cannot, though regenerate, conceive, will or do any good thing without it.

What is perhaps lost of the grace of form of the crown of Edward II.

Before meat and after it grace was said by a priest.

The course of inexorable law cannot be turned aside by any sacrifice or offering, nor yet even by the free grace of God.

The council of the North was established in York in 1537 after the suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace.

Ficklen above cited, another by the same author in collaboration with Grace King (New Orleans, 1902) and another (more valuable) by Albert Phelps (Boston, 1905), in the American Commonwealth Series.

In 434, three years after the council of Ephesus, he wrote the Commonitorium adversus profanas omnium haereticorum novitates, in which he ultimately aims at Augustine's doctrine of grace and predestination.

The public debt council consented with good grace, although the minister of finance, by omitting to consult that council during the progress of negotiations, lost sight of the fact that a sum of £T87,823 was due to the public debt administration on account of arrears of the Eastern Rumelian annuity up to December 1887, and that a further sum of £T430,741 was due by the Bulgarian to the Turkish government itself in compensation Tor the Rustchuk-Varna railway under the Treaty of Berlin.

Sacerdotal benedictions are not indeed sacraments - means of grace ordained by Christ himself, but sacramentals (sacramenta minora) ordained by the authority of the Church and exercised by the priests, as the plenipotentiaries of God, in virtue of the powers conferred on them at their ordination; "that whatever they bless may be blessed, and whatever they consecrate may be consecrated."

But though by some the benediction has thus been brought into connexion with the supreme means of grace, the sacrifice of the Mass, the blessing does not in itself confer grace and does not act on its recipients ex opere operato.

His system declared that holiness and sin are free voluntary exercises; that men act freely under the divine agency; that the slightest transgression deserves eternal punishment; that it is through God's mere grace that the penitent believer is pardoned and justified; that, in spite of total depravity, sinners ought to repent; and that regeneration is active, not passive, with the believer.

The less the Church could expect from its penitents, the more it was driven to trust to the miraculous efficiency of sacramental grace.

In other words, the mercy already experienced in the removal of the plague is taken as a pledge of future grace not to stop short till all God's old promises are fulfilled.

For according to the Pontifical, the episcopate is the " summum sacerdotium "; the bishop in consecration receives " the sacerdotal grace "; it is " his office to consecrate, ordain, offer, baptize, confirm."

Yet the coup de grace was postponed for another five years, during which time Suleiman was occupied with the conquest of Egypt and the siege of Rhodes.

What is not quite so generally known is the fact that Leopold slackened at once and would have been quite content with the results of these earlier victories had not the pope stiffened his resistance by forming a Holy League between the Emperor, Poland, Venice, Muscovy and the papacy, with the avowed object of dealing the Turk the coup de grace (March 5, 1684).

The deepest line of cleavage is naturally between the view that episcopacy is a divinely ordained institution essential to the effective existence of a church as a channel of grace, and the view that it is merely a convenient form of church order, evolved as the result of a variety of historical causes, and not necessary to the proper constitution of a church.

The freedom and the inexhaustibleness of the undeserved grace of God is a subject to which this gifted son constantly returns with "a monotony which is never monotonous."