Grace vs Humanity - What's the difference?
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(not countable) Elegant movement; poise or balance.
(not countable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
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(not countable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God. Unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.
(not countable, theology) Divine assistance in resisting sin.
(countable) Short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
(finance) An allowance of time granted for a debtor during which he is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
(card games) A special move in a solitaire or patience game that is normally against the rules.
To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
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To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
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To supply with heavenly grace.
(music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
Mankind; human beings as a group.
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The quality of being benevolent.
Humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
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As a proper noun grace
is (label) , equivalent to english (grace).As a noun humanity is
mankind; human beings as a group.grace
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(wikipedia grace)Noun
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- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace : the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing.
Verb
(grac)- He graced the room with his presence.
- He graced the room by simply being there.
- His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.
- Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.
- We are graced with wreaths of victory.
- He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court.
- (Bishop Hall)
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(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity , and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}
- Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities !”