GRACIOUS

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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. Neh. ix. 17. So hallowed and so gracious in the time. Shak.

2.
a.

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. Shak.

3.
a.

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


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