Synonyms for grace
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1. grace

   Mercy is the exercise of less severity than one deserves, or in a more extended sense, the granting of kindness or favor beyond what one may rightly claim. Grace is favor, kindness, or blessing shown to the undeserving; forgiveness, mercy, and pardon are exercised toward the ill-deserving. Pardon remits the outward penalty which the offender deserves; forgiveness dismisses resentment or displeasure from the heart of the one offended; mercy seeks the highest possible good of the offender. There may be mercy without pardon, as in the mitigation of sentence, or in all possible alleviation of necessary severity; there may be cases where pardon would not be mercy, since it would encourage to repetition of the offense, from which timely punishment might have saved. Mercy is also used in the wider sense of refraining from harshness or cruelty toward those who are in one's power without fault of their own; as, they besought the robber to have mercy. Clemency is a colder word than mercy, and without its religious associations, signifying mildness and moderation in the use of power where severity would have legal or military, rather than moral sanction; it often denotes a habitual mildness of disposition on the part of the powerful, and is matter rather of good nature or policy than of principle. Leniency or lenity denotes an easy-going avoidance of severity; these words are more general and less magisterial than clemency; we should speak of the leniency of a parent, the clemency of a conqueror. Compare PITY.

   Synonyms:
   benevolence, benignity, blessing, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, gentleness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tenderness

   Antonyms:
   cruelty, hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, punishment, revenge, rigor, severity, sternness, vengeance

   Preposition:
   The mercy of God to or toward sinners; have mercy on or upon one.

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1. grace

   Synonyms:
   favor, beauty, condescension, kindness, elegance, charm, excellence, pardon, mercy

   Antonyms:
   disfavor, deformity, unkindness, pride, inelegance, awkwardness, gawkiness

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1. grace, saving grace, state of gracenoun

   (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who is under such divine influence

   "the conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin"; "it was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church"; "the Virgin lived in a state of grace"

   Synonyms:
   gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace of God, goodwill, seemliness

2. grace, gracilitynoun

   elegance and beauty of movement or expression

   "a beautiful figure which she used in subtle movements of unparalleled grace"

   Synonyms:
   gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace of God, goodwill, seemliness

3. seemliness, gracenoun

   a sense of propriety and consideration for others

   "a place where the company of others must be accepted with good grace"

   Synonyms:
   gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, blessing, free grace, seemliness, grace of God, goodwill

4. grace, good will, goodwillnoun

   a disposition to kindness and compassion

   "the victor's grace in treating the vanquished"

   Synonyms:
   gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace of God, goodwill, seemliness

5. Gracenoun

   (Greek mythology) one of three sisters who were the givers of beauty and charm; a favorite subject for sculptors

   Synonyms:
   gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace of God, goodwill, seemliness

6. grace, blessing, thanksgivingnoun

   a short prayer of thanks before a meal

   "their youngest son said grace"

   Synonyms:
   approval, gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, boon, free grace, blessing, benediction, approving, grace of God, goodwill, seemliness

7. grace, grace of God, free graceverb

   (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God

   "God's grace is manifested in the salvation of sinners"; "there but for the grace of God go I"

   Synonyms:
   gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace of God, goodwill, seemliness

8. decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautifyverb

   make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

   "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"

   Synonyms:
   fancify, dramatise, ornament, adorn, deck, decorate, clothe, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, embroider, dress, lard, embellish, prettify, beautify, pad, dramatize, invest

9. deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautifyverb

   be beautiful to look at

   "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"

   Synonyms:
   fancify, dramatise, bedeck, ornament, adorn, dump, deck, decorate, clothe, aggrandise, invest, blow up, aggrandize, embroider, dress, lard, coldcock, embellish, prettify, bedight, beautify, floor, knock down, pad, dramatize

Matched Categories

1. • Christian Theology
   • Greek Deity
   • Greek Mythology
   • Change
   • Gracefulness
   • Prayer
   • Propriety
   • State

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1. gracenoun

   Synonyms:
   favor, kindness, condescension, benignity, love, good-will

2. gracenoun

   Synonyms:
   divine goodness or favor, divine influence, god's love

3. gracenoun

   Synonyms:
   piety, devotion, devoutness, holiness, religion, sanctity

4. gracenoun

   Synonyms:
   pardon, forgiveness, mercy

5. gracenoun

   Synonyms:
   elegance, polish, refinement, accomplishment

6. gracenoun

   Synonyms:
   beauty, symmetry, comeliness, gracefulness, ease

7. gracenoun

   Synonyms:
   short prayer (over food at table)

8. gracenoun

   Synonyms:
   (Music.) embellishment (appoggiatura, shake, trill, turn)

9. graceverb

   Synonyms:
   adorn, decorate, beautify, embellish, deck

10. graceverb

    Synonyms:
    dignify, honor

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1. gracenoun

   Synonyms:
   compassion, lenity, mercy, benevolence, love, excellence, virtue, beauty, loveliness, gracefulness, comeliness, refinement, elegance, courtliness, culture, polish, holiness, saintliness, sanctity, devoutness

2. graceverb

   Synonyms:
   adorn, beautify, embellish, dignify, honor, exalt

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1. List of paraphrases for "grace":

   gracia, majesty, thanks, pardon, elegance, mercy, samah, clemency, gris

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1. Mathieu Jaton:

   It's with emotion and pleasure that I welcome you to the Montreux Jazz Festival writing its 50th year of history. It was a dream to open the festival with the first artist to grace the stage, of course Charles Lloyd.

2. Mickey Mehta:

   Be spirited, go beyond the body and exceed not just to succeed, let success beg you at your feet to be accepted by you with grace, that should be the case. Be thirsty for fulfillment, let your chase for success be neutralized, be centered in your being and get MickeyMized. THE WORLD WILL CONVERGE AT YOUR FEET THEN.

3. Jim Meskimen:

   There’s that song, ‘You Always Hurt the One You Love.’… [But] we shouldn’t make light of an assault. I’ve had it happened to me where people make fun of me in front of others, in front of a large group. They say something that is supposed to be entertaining, but in fact, it’s offensive and hurtful. At that point, I look at it as an opportunity for me. I have an opportunity to show grace, tolerance and understanding. Or it’s an opportunity to make an a-- of myself. You want to make the most of those opportunities. And when you’re a big star in the public eye, there are lots of opportunities to establish your brand and reputation through your behavior. I hope both Chris and Will get ideas on how to handle things better.

4. George Frederick Handel:

   What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners If we were to rely on our works--my God, what would become of us

5. Regina Rodriguez:

   . Shortly before the couple were buried, the gunman’s first wife spoke publicly for the first time since the massacre. Tessa Brennaman said Tessa Brennaman lived in constant fear of Kelley, a former airman, and said he had once placed a handgun against Tessa Brennaman head and threatened to kill Tessa Brennaman. He just had a lot of demons or hatred inside of him, Brennaman, 25, told CBS’s Inside Edition. In 2012, while stationed at an Air Force base in New Mexico, Kelley received a court-martial conviction for physically abusing Brennaman and fracturing his infant stepson’s skull. At the Grace Bible Church in La Vernia where the Richard Rodriguez funeral service was held, about 500 people gathered to hear tributes to the couple, who were married in 2006. Rodriguez’s first wife died 15 years ago. Richard Rodriguez only child, daughter Regina Rodriguez, 33, said it was a small comfort that Regina Rodriguez father and Therese died together, deeply in love and inside their place of worship. What a perfect way to leave this world, not one of them going through mourning and burying each other, because I know that my dad could n’t do it again.