Grace vs Works - 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.
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(plurale tantum) A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.
(plurale tantum) A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.
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, title= Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
(plurale tantum) Acts associated with moral or religious standing.
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English
(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.
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(wikipedia works)Noun
(head)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}