your-grace

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Definitions of your-grace word

noun your-grace elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness. 1
noun your-grace a pleasing or attractive quality or endowment: He lacked the manly graces. 1
noun your-grace favor or goodwill. Synonyms: kindness, kindliness, love, benignity; condescension. 1
noun your-grace a manifestation of favor, especially by a superior: It was only through the dean's grace that I wasn't expelled from school. Synonyms: forgiveness, charity, mercifulness. Antonyms: animosity, enmity, disfavor. 1
noun your-grace mercy; clemency; pardon: He was saved by an act of grace from the governor. Synonyms: lenity, leniency, reprieve. Antonyms: harshness. 1
noun your-grace favor shown in granting a delay or temporary immunity. 1

before 1125

One of the 6% oldest English words

1125-75; Middle English < Old French < Latin grātia favor, kindness, esteem, derivative of grātus pleasing

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".