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Respite vs Grace - What's the difference?

respite | grace |

As a noun respite

is a brief interval of rest or relief.

As a verb respite

is to delay or postpone.

As a proper noun grace is

(label) , equivalent to english (grace).

respite

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brief interval of rest or relief.
  • * Denham
    • Some pause and respite only I require.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I crave but four day's respite .
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite , and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
  • * 2013 May 23, (Sarah Lyall), " British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
    • Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.
  • (legal) A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
  • (legal) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To delay or postpone.

    • 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.

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