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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

... life of light and in it we feel that promise. We know it to be on its travels, glancing and refracting from every object which it touches. The shadows which it cannot penetrate directly, receive its gracious influence in this way and always under a subtler law which governs its direct ...

— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore

... Gracious, child! What are you doing here? And what have you got in your mouth? Who is it? Tibby Jarland? [TIBBY curtsies again] Take that thing out. And tell your father from me that if I ever see you at the ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... great a shock to the nerves of their fellow-mortals even to hear described. Miss Ophelia had a good, strong, practical deal of resolution; and she went through all the disgusting details with heroic thoroughness, though, it must be confessed, with no very gracious air,—for endurance was the utmost to which her principles could bring her. When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her ...

— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... (Leech was one of the stewards), as if he would like to make his acquaintance. The famous Punch caricaturist thereupon stepped forward, and was duly introduced. Disraeli showed himself particularly gracious, and warmly congratulated the artist, whose pencil had lately been employed in satirising him in a disparaging fashion, depicting him as a nice young man for a small party, i.e. the Young England party, as a Jew dealer ...

— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... substantial road to reconciliation. "His Majesty," said the Marquis; on delivering his report to the State Council, "has long been pondering over all things necessary to the peace of the land. His Majesty, like a very gracious and bountiful Prince, has ever been disposed, in times past, to treat these, his subjects, by the best and sweetest means." There being, however, room for an opinion that so bountiful a prince might have discovered sweeter ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

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