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grace

/ɡɹeɪs/ verb C2
  1. To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. (transitive) · He graced the room with his presence.· He graced the room by simply being there.
  2. To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour. (transitive)
  3. To supply with heavenly grace. (transitive)
  4. To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to. (transitive)

He/she/it graces · Past graced · Past participle graced · -ing form gracing

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Verb forms

Base form
grace
He/she/it
graces
Past
graced
Past participle
graced
-ing form
gracing

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Danglars thought it as well to comply with a good grace, so he took the pen, ink, and paper Peppino offered him, wrote the draft, and signed it.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1082 · C1
The house of the Duke of Bracciano is one of the most delightful in Rome, the duchess, one of the last heiresses of the Colonnas, does its honors with the most consummate grace, and thus their fêtes have a European celebrity.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 389 · C1
Collins’s proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 99 · B2
we have so many worlds in the year of grace 1838.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 432 · C1

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