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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

... Gracious! I couldn't breathe in there! Got to clear something out before Reba comes up here. She'd have no respect for ...

— The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays • Olive Tilford Dargan and Frederick Peterson

... ambition, under the name of glory, can covet; the Most Catholic, covering with the mantle of his Catholicity, a greater multitude of enormities on this very continent, than even charity itself could conceal; and our own gracious Sovereign, whose virtues and whose mildness are celebrated in verse and prose, causing rivers of blood to run, in order that the little island over which she rules may swell out, like the frog in the fable, to dimensions that nature has denied, and which ...

— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper

... scheme of a pilgrimage, and received the direction with as much internal contumacy as would a thriving church-member of Wall Street a proposition to attend a protracted meeting in the height of the business season. Not but that pilgrimages were holy and gracious works,—she was too good a Christian not to admit that,—but why must holy and gracious works be thrust on her in particular? There were saints enough who liked such things; and people could get to heaven without,—if ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various

... at all times displayed his power and mercy in the wonderful and gracious delivery of his Church; and in the protection of pious and godly rulers and people, who have acknowledged and served him, against the ungodly conspiracies and violent practices of all their enemies. He has by the interposition of his Providence ...

— Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe • Thaddeus Mason Harris

... from linings," said Miss Milligan in an injured tone. "Gracious! I don't suppose any one would ever want a dress if they went by the way the linings look. I always advise my customers never to look in the glass until I get to the material, what with seams on the wrong ...

— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

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