3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as
pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of
equitable relief through chancery.
4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means
misfortune. [Obs.] Chaucer.
5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win
favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace
a gentleman.
Shak.
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.
Blair.
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6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy
elegance of manners; perfection of form.
Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them
longer, than any thing else.
Hazlitt.
I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of
the gift.
Longfellow.
7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses,
represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo
but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number;
namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the
inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love,
and social intercourse.
The Graces love to weave the rose.
Moore.
The Loves delighted, and the Graces played.
Prior.
8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of
the king of England.
How fares your Grace !
Shak.