Grace

Definition

grace / greÇs / n ၁။ [U] က်က္သေရ။ တင့္တယ္ျခင္း။ ညက္ေညာမႈ။ ေၾကာ့ရွင္းျခင္း။ dance/ walk/ move with grace. ၂။ [U] ဘုရားသခင္၏ က႐ုဏာေတာ္။ ဘုရားသခင္၏ ေက်းဇူးေတာ္။ By the grace of God their lives were spared. ❍ Did he die in a state of grace (ie strengthened and inspired by God, esp after having prayed and been blessed by a priest)? ❍ ( saying ) There, but for the grace of God, go I. ဘုရားေက်းဇူးေတာ္ေၾကာင့္ သူ႕လို ဒုကၡ မေရာက္တာ။ ၃။ [U] သတ္မွတ္ခ်ိန္ ေရႊ႕ဆိုင္းေပးျခင္း။ Payment is due today, but I gave her a week's grace (ie an extra week to pay). ၄။ [U] မ်က္ႏွာသာေပးျခင္း။ မ်က္ႏွာသာေပးမႈ။ He had been the king's favourite, and his sudden fall from grace surprised everyone. ၅။ [C usu pl ] လူမႈေရး ရည္မြန္မႈ။ well-versed in the social graces. ၆။ [U,C] (ထမင္းမစားမီ ေက်းဇူးေတာ္ ခ်ီးမြမ္းစကား)။ Shall I say grace? See also saving grace ၇။ His/ Her/ Your Grace [C] (ၿမိဳ႕စား၊ ၿမိဳ႕စားကေတာ္ (သို႔) ခရစ္ယာန္ဂိုဏ္းခ်ဳပ္ကို ေခၚရာ၌ အမည္ အစားသံုးေသာ အာလုပ္စကား)။ Good morning, Your Grace! ❍ Their Graces, the Duke and Duchess of Kent. v ( fml ) ၁။ တန္ဆာဆင္သည္။ ဆင္ယင္သည္။ Fine paintings graced the walls of the room. ၂။ ~ sb/ sth (with sth) (တက္ေရာက္) ခ်ီးျမႇင့္သည္။ The occasion was graced by the presence of the Queen. ❍ ( ironic ) Supper's ready __ are you going to grace us with your presence? ❏ be in sb's good graces [ IDM ] မ်က္ႏွာသာေပး ခံရသည္။ (ဗန္း) ၾကည္သည္။ I'm not in her good graces at the moment. ❏ have the grace to do sth [ IDM ] မ႐ိုင္းသင့္။ He might have had the grace to say he was sorry! ❏ with (a) bad/ good grace [ IDM ] ေဆာင့္ႀကီး ေအာင့္ႀကီး (သို႔) ၾကည္ၾကည္သာသာ။ She accepted his apology with (a) good grace. ❍ He handed over the money with (a) bad grace.

Examples

1. She moved with natural grace.
2. The grace of Greek architecture
3. She captures the character’s essential gentleness and grace.
4. [have the (good) grace to do something] : He should have the grace to admit he was wrong.
5. [with (good/a good) grace] : Davis accepted the defeat with good grace.
6. [with bad/a bad/an ill grace] : She responded with an ill grace to our appeal for help.
7. Eric
8. would you like to say grace?
9. [by/through God’s grace] : It was only by God’s grace that we were saved.
10. [state of grace] : He died in a state of grace.
11. Could you give me a couple of days’ grace to pay the rent?