Word Meaning

Meaning of "grace" and the crossword clue

- Archbishop’s address before dinner?
- Blessing before a meal
- Easy elegance
- Elegance
- Elegance of movement
- Mealtime prayer
- Odd German chef has prayer before meals
- Poise
- Prayer before a meal
- Pre-dinner prayer
- 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.