Gracious vs Righteous - What's the difference?
gracious | righteous | Related terms |
kind and warmly courteous
tactful
compassionate
indulgent, charming and graceful
elegant and with good taste
benignant
expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
free from sin or guilt
moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
justified morally
(slang, US) awesome
To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 101:
Gracious is a related term of righteous.
As adjectives the difference between gracious and righteous
is that gracious is kind and warmly courteous while righteous is free from sin or guilt.As an interjection gracious
is expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.As a verb righteous is
to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.gracious
English
Alternative forms
* gratious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* graciousness * graciouslyInterjection
(en interjection)righteous
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* righteousness * self-righteousVerb
(es)- Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused ’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.