Your-grace

elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action:
we watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice.
synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity.
antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
a pleasing or attractive quality or endowment:
he lacked the manly graces.
favor or goodwill.
synonyms: kindness, kindliness, love, benignity; condescension.
a manifestation of favor, especially by a superior:
it was only through the dean’s grace that i wasn’t expelled from school.
synonyms: forgiveness, charity, mercifulness.
antonyms: animosity, enmity, disfavor.
mercy; clemency; pardon:
he was saved by an act of grace from the governor.
synonyms: lenity, leniency, reprieve.
antonyms: harshness.
favor shown in granting a delay or temporary immunity.
an allowance of time after a debt or bill has become payable granted to the debtor before suit can be brought against him or her or a penalty applied:
the life insurance premium is due today, but we have 31 days’ grace before the policy lapses.
compare grace period.
theology.

the freely given, unmerited favor and love of g-d.
the influence or spirit of g-d operating in humans to regenerate or strengthen them.
a virtue or excellence of divine origin:
the christian graces.
also called state of grace. the condition of being in g-d’s favor or one of the elect.

moral strength:
the grace to perform a duty.
a short prayer before or after a meal, in which a blessing is asked and thanks are given:
grandfather will now say grace.
(usually initial capital letter) a formal t-tle used in addressing or mentioning a duke, d-ch-ss, or archbishop, and formerly also a sovereign (usually preceded by your, his, etc.).
graces, cl-ssical mythology. the goddesses of beauty, daughters of zeus and eurynome, worshiped in greece as the charities and in rome as the gratiae.
music. grace note.
to lend or add grace to; adorn:
many fine paintings graced the rooms of the house.
synonyms: embellish, beautify, deck, decorate, ornament; enhance, honor.
antonyms: disfigure, desecrate, demean.
to favor or honor:
to grace an occasion with one’s presence.
synonyms: glorify, elevate, exalt.
antonyms: disrespect, dishonor.
but for the grace of g-d, under less fortunate circ-mstances:
but for the grace of g-d, the brick that just fell from the roof would have hit me on the head!
by the grace of g-d, thankfully; fortunately:
by the grace of g-d, i won’t have to deal with tax returns for another year.
fall from grace,

theology. to relapse into sin or disfavor.
to lose favor; be discredited:
he fell from grace when the boss found out he had lied.

have the grace to, to be so kind as to:
would you have the grace to help, please?
in someone’s good / bad graces, regarded with favor (or disfavor) by someone:
it is a wonder that i have managed to stay in her good graces this long.
with bad grace, reluctantly; grudgingly:
he apologized, but did so with bad grace.
also, with a bad grace.
with good grace, willingly; ungrudgingly:
she took on the extra work with good grace.
noun
elegance and beauty of movement, form, expression, or proportion
a pleasing or charming quality
goodwill or favour
the granting of a favour or the manifestation of goodwill, esp by a superior
a sense of propriety and consideration for others
(pl)

affectation of manner (esp in the phrase airs and graces)
in someone’s good graces, regarded favourably and with kindness by someone

mercy; clemency
(christianity)

the free and unmerited favour of g-d shown towards man
the divine -ssistance and power given to man in spiritual rebirth and sanctification
the condition of being favoured or sanctified by g-d
an unmerited gift, favour, etc, granted by g-d

a short prayer recited before or after a meal to invoke a blessing upon the food or give thanks for it
(music) a melodic ornament or decoration
see days of grace
with bad grace, with a bad grace, unwillingly or grudgingly
with good grace, with a good grace, willingly or cheerfully
verb
(transitive) to add elegance and beauty to: flowers graced the room
(transitive) to honour or favour: to grace a party with one’s presence
to ornament or decorate (a melody, part, etc) with nonessential notes
noun
preceded by your, his, or her. a t-tle used to address or refer to a duke, d-ch-ss, or archbishop
noun
w(illiam) g(ilbert). 1848–1915, english cricketer
n.
v.

see:

fall from grace
in someone’s bad graces
in someone’s good graces
saving grace
say grace
there but for the grace of god
with good grace