(n.) The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.
(n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.
(n.) Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune.
(n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
(n.) Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.
(n.) Thanks.
(n.) A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
(v. t.) To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.
(v. t.) To supply with heavenly grace.
(v. t.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(2) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
(3) So much of England possesses this grace and silence.
(4) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
(5) Additional research: Suzie Worroll, James Browning, Grace Nzita and Nicolas Niarchos How do you feel about the representation of women in British public life?
(6) Grace's ascent has also thrown a grenade into the bitter succession battle within Zanu-PF, which Mugabe has divided and ruled for decades.
(7) Comet Hale-Bopp graced the night skies in 1997 and was easily visible to the naked eye for months.
(8) A s the protests in Turkey continue , spare a thought for the man whose personal tragedy few have the grace to acknowledge – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
(9) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
(10) It is a fall from grace for an Arsenal team who were top of the table at the turn of the year.
(11) My hope is that those who are at the Games take these words and let them echo, with grace, courage and dignity, in whatever way they choose to, because it will make a difference to those participating, and to those watching.
(12) In his enforced absence following a dramatic fall from grace that symbolises many of the ills of football’s culture of entitlement, France will be hoping football can again bring the nation together in the most straitened of times.
(13) The bomb threat tweet was sent to Freeman, the Europe editor of Time magazine, Catherine Mayer, and the Independent columnist Grace Dent, who took a screen grab of the tweet and posted it for her Twitter followers to see .
(14) Waitrose evokes strong opinions: from sniffy derision about the supermarket's perceived airs and graces to expressions of joy from middle-class incomers when their gentrified area is blessed with a branch.
(15) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
(16) The prayer appeals for “grace to debate the issues in this referendum with honesty and openness”.
(17) Once he gets that power, he starts relishing that side of his personality.” Claflin is an earthy, unassuming sort; even acting hasn’t given him airs and graces.
(18) They wasted an opportunity to show the same grace as Caroline Lucas, by joining an alliance in a seat they would never win.
(19) The spectacular ascent that saw him grace the cover of Newsweek as Asian of the Year and become the heir apparent of then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was met with an equally spectacular crash in 1998, when the two fell out and Anwar was imprisoned for six years on corruption and sodomy charges, claims he repeatedly dismissed as politically motivated.
(20) The acarajé at this five-square-metre hole-in-the-wall joint at the top of a bar-packed street close to Mackenzie University are served with grace, charm and warm smiles by Fátima and Miri de Castro.
Grice
Definition:
(pl. ) of Gree
(n.) A little pig.
(n.) See Gree, a step.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statistics office's chief economist Joe Grice said the bigger picture in Wednesday's GDP data is that the UK economy, in volume terms, was flat between January and March compared with the same period last year.
(2) Joe Grice, chief economist at the UK's Office for National Statistics, is always chiding journalists for not loooking at the long term trend in GDP data, and maybe we need to take the same healthy scepticism to today's figures from Japan 9.03am BST Telecoms giants enter tariff battle Bloomberg is reporting that Nokia and Ericsson have told the EU to drop a probe into unfair subsidies for Chinese phone makers.
(3) Varising osteotomy of the calcaneum offers the advantage of avoiding sacrifice of the calcaneo-talar joint, as in the Grice-Green arthrodesis, which although indicated for the paralytic valgus flat foot, is not appropriate in the idiopathic variety.
(4) After predictable failure of a Grice procedure, a persisting good correction was obtained by fibula lengthening combined with talus reposition and fixation on os calcis.
(5) Grice-OP is able to prevent severe deformities but it is often followed by a subtalar arthrodesis after growth arrest.
(6) This study reports the results of a computerized baropodometric analysis of the function of primary valgus pronated flat foot submitted to talocalcanear arthrodesis according to the Grice-Green method (Grice, 1952; 1955) as modified by Vigliani et al., (1978).
(7) Joe Grice, chief economist at the ONS, said: “These figures - rising employment and falling unemployment and inactivity – continue the strong trend in the labour market that has been seen in recent months.
(8) A retrospective review was done of 19 poliomyelitis feet on which the standard Grice subtalar arthrodesis was performed for correction of valgus feet deformity.
(9) 9.40am BST Photograph: Sky News Joe Grice, the head of the ONS, is refusing to make any predictions for how the UK economy may fare in the months ahead.
(10) 9.35am GMT The recovery has been somewhat erratic, says Joe Grice, but it "feels like the economy now has a better tone".
(11) Lumbar segmental coupled motion categories according to the scheme of Cassidy and Grice, as well as a modified scheme.
(12) UK economic growth accelerated to 0.6% before Brexit vote – live updates Read more Joe Grice, chief economist at the ONS , said there was little evidence that concern about a possible Brexit vote had a negative impact on the economy before the referendum.
(13) The pseudarthrosis rate was 41 per cent, which is considerably higher than that reported for the Grice extra-articular arthrodesis.
(14) The best results were obtained with early subtalar arthrodesis (Grice) and biplanar K wire fixation.
(15) The results of the Grice extra-articular subtalar arthrodesis were evaluated in 102 feet of 60 ambulatory patients with spasticity at an average of five years postoperatively.
(16) A retrospective review of 45 patients (62 feet) who had undergone a Grice subtalar arthrodesis and who had reached skeletal maturity was undertaken.
(17) Confirming the new measure recently, ONS chief economic adviser Joe Grice said: While it’s right that GDP plays a central role in monetary and fiscal policy, it has long been recognised as presenting an incomplete picture of how our society is doing.
(18) A case presentation involving complications resulting from errors in surgical technique with the Grice-Green procedure is discussed in this report.
(19) 10.17am BST And here's what a bumpy, shallow recovery looks like ( via the Guardian's Datablog ) Photograph: Datablog 10.10am BST ONS: Britain's bumpy and shallow recovery The ONS's chief economist Joe Grice said the 0.3 per cent growth registered from January to the end of March fitted the pattern in recent years.
(20) Grice declined to say when UK workers might finally see wages rising in real terms, but did point out that inflation has recently fallen.