Grace vs Pardon - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between grace and pardon

is that grace is to supply with heavenly grace while pardon is to refrain from exacting as a penalty.

As a proper noun Grace

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As an interjection pardon is

Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.

grace
English
(wikipedia grace)
Noun

(not countable) Elegant movement; poise or balance.

(not countable) Charming, pleasing qualities.

* 1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations

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.

* Blair

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.

(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.

Related terms
* begrace * good graces * graceful * graceless * gracious * grateful * gratitude * say grace * ungrace
Verb
(grac)
To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.

He graced the room with his presence.

He graced the room by simply being there.

His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.

* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope)

Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)

We are graced with wreaths of victory.

To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.

* (rfdate) (Knolles)

He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court.

To supply with heavenly grace.

(Bishop Hall)

(music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

Anagrams
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pardon
English

Noun
(en noun)
Forgiveness for an offence.

* 1748 : Samuel Richardson, Clarissa

a step, that could not be taken with the least hope of ever obtaining pardon from or reconciliation with any of my friends;

(legal) An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.

* 1974 : President Gerald Ford, Proclamation 4311

I... have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States ...

Derived terms
* I beg your pardon
Verb
(en verb)
To forgive.

* 1599 : (William Shakespeare),

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

* 1815 : (Jane Austen), (Emma)

I hope you will not find he has outstepped the truth more than may be pardoned , in consideration of the motive.

*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned .}}
To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

* Shakespeare

I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.

(legal) To grant an official pardon for a crime; unguilt.

* 1900', , ' (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,

The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

Derived terms
* pardonable * pardoner * pardon me * pardon my French * unpardonable
Interjection

Pardon? , What did you say?, Can you say that again?