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Gracious

adjective

Characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit. "Gracious living" , "He bears insult with gracious good humor"

Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects. Synonym: benignant.

Exhibiting courtesy and politeness. Synonyms: courteous, nice.

Disposed to bestow favors.

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"Gracious" Quotes from Famous Books

... heaven be many industries And occupations, varied, infinite; Or heaven could not be heaven. What gracious tasks The Mighty Maker of the universe Can offer souls that have prepared on earth By holding ...

— Poems of Purpose • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... my dear sir," repeated the Major, blandly, smoothly, and with an air of—well, not condescension, but gracious familiarity. "Will you be so extremely kind as to inform me concerning the most direct route to the hotel or ...

— The Depot Master • Joseph C. Lincoln

... my heart leaps, O beloved! God's child with his dew On thy gracious gold hair, and those lilies still living and blue Just broken to twine round thy harp-strings, as if no wild heat Were now raging ...

— Robert Browning: How To Know Him • William Lyon Phelps

... their gracious master With potion and with pill; They drench'd him and they bled him; They could not cure his ill. "Go fetch," says he, "my lawyer, I'd better ...

— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray

... which might well suit with majesty, and which, descending as hereditary to the daughter, did render her of a sweeter temper, and endeared her more to the love and liking of the people, who gave her the name and fame of a most gracious and ...

— Travels in England and Fragmenta Regalia • Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton

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