GRACE

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grace I. substantiv

1. graţie; farmec, nuri, vino-ncoace; drăgălăş(en)ie, gingăşie.

2. graţie, eleganţă; frumuseţe, farmec (al formelor mişcărilor); supleţe, mlădiere.

3. bunăvoinţă, favoare, simpatie; graţii, graţie;

to be in smb.’s good graces a fi în bunele graţii ale cuiva, a se bucura de bunăvoinţa cuiva.

4. politeţe, (bună-)cuviinţă; tact, bun simţ, amabilitate, gentileţe; complezenţă;

with a good grace a) politicos, cuviincios; b) cu complezenţă, îndatoritor;

with a bad grace a) fără amabilitate, fără gentileţe; b) neîndatoritor; c) în silă, fără poftă;

you had the bad grace to deny it ai avut lipsa de tact să tăgăduieşti; ai fost atât de puţin cavaler încât să negi.

5. plural calităţi atrăgătoare, însuşiri fermecătoare, nuri;

airs and graces atitudini afectate; fasoane, mofturi, aere.

6. (punct de) atracţie; farmec, podoabă.

7. hatâr.

8. clemenţă, milă, îndurare, milostivire; graţie, iertare;

Act of grace a) act, decret de graţiere; b) (lege de) amnistie.

9. termen (de graţie); amânare, păsuire, păsuială, răgaz;

(com.) days of grace respiro, zile de păsuire (la plata unei poliţe).

10. Grace rugăciune (la începutul sau la terminarea mesei);

he said grace el a rostit rugăciunea.

11. (univ.) autorizaţie de a se prezenta la examen pentru obţinerea unui titlu academic.

12. His Grace (în Anglia, înaintea titlului unui duce şi al unui arhiepiscop) înălţimea sa, înalt prea sfinţia sa.

13. pl. the Graces (mitol.) graţiile.

14. (muz.) fioritură.

15. plural joc cu cercul.

grace II. verb tranzitiv

1. a împodobi, a înfrumuseţa; a fi o podoabă pentru.

2. a onora, a cinsti (o reuniune etc.).

3. a onora pe cineva cu titlul de „Your Grace“.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

"Don't you love to ride?" asked Grace of Amy, as they stood resting after a race round the field with the others, led by Ned.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She is a very superior young lady, of very remarkable attractions, graces, and virtues.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

That woman was no other than Grace Poole.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Your Grace can hardly have heard of any small reputation which I possess, or you would not imagine that it is so easy to escape me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mon Dieu! there are some folk who have no fear of Domesday in them, and no sign of grace in their souls, for ever clutching and clawing at another man's chattels.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Take the part with a good grace, and let us hear no more of the matter, I entreat.”

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Mrs. Churchill is not much in my good graces, as you may suspect—but this is quite between ourselves.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

DR. ILLINGWORTH: 'Your Grace, there must be an amendment.'

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But yet—he is not the kind of young man—there is something wanting—his figure is not striking; it has none of that grace which I should expect in the man who could seriously attach my sister.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

There was a momentary expression in Captain Wentworth's face at this speech, a certain glance of his bright eye, and curl of his handsome mouth, which convinced Anne, that instead of sharing in Mrs Musgrove's kind wishes, as to her son, he had probably been at some pains to get rid of him; but it was too transient an indulgence of self-amusement to be detected by any who understood him less than herself; in another moment he was perfectly collected and serious, and almost instantly afterwards coming up to the sofa, on which she and Mrs Musgrove were sitting, took a place by the latter, and entered into conversation with her, in a low voice, about her son, doing it with so much sympathy and natural grace, as shewed the kindest consideration for all that was real and unabsurd in the parent's feelings.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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