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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

... 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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