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adjective

Gracious adj.

Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love, or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty. "A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful." "So hallowed and so gracious in the time."

Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent. "Since the birth of Cain, the first male child,... There was not such a gracious creature born."

Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.

Synonyms: Favorable; kind; benevolent; friendly; beneficent; benignant; merciful.

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Etymology of 'Gracious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gracious" Quotes from Famous Books

... finish on Tuesday evening, and cannot do better, I think, than give you a full account of our last night's success; for a very complete success it was, I am happy to say. Murphy's play of "The Grecian Daughter" I suppose you know; or if you do not, your state is the more gracious, for certainly anything more flat, poor, and trashy I cannot well conceive. It had been, you know, a great part of my aunt Siddons's, and nothing better proves her great dramatic genius than her having ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... away," she said; "for it is obvious you will want it before long. So far as that goes you will find the cap not unbecoming; and I'll see to it that you have a piece of looking-glass—though, by ordinary, that is forbidden. Good gracious, child, what a figure you have! If I had had one quarter of your good fortune I should never have ...

— The Spanish Jade • Maurice Hewlett

... shore Where glutted hell disgorgeth filthiest gloom, Unbitten by its whirring sulphur-spume, Or whence the grieved and obscure waters slope Into a darkness quieted by hope; Plucker of amaranths grown beneath God's eye In gracious twilights where his chosen lie——" * ...

— Life of Robert Browning • William Sharp

... intrust it to the machine people. However, I can divide up the seventeen sections among different people and none will know the whole story. I will keep it in Boston with the other papers, and—gracious! what's this?" ...

— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... gracefully alighted; whereupon James commanded that the carriage should be stayed, thrusting out his hand in a very gracious sort to this worthy knight, who, on ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

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