Patience vs. Grace — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Patience and Grace
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Patience
Patience (or forbearance) is the ability to endure difficult circumstances. Patience may involve perseverance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in disrespect/anger; or forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties.
Grace
Seemingly effortless beauty or charm of movement, form, or proportion.
Patience
The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient
"The task of mastering ancient languages ... takes years of study, and persistence, and patience" (Cullen Murphy).
Grace
A characteristic or quality pleasing for its charm or refinement.
Patience
Chiefly British, Games Solitaire.
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Grace
A sense of fitness or propriety.
Patience
The quality of being patient.
Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience.
Grace
A disposition to be generous or helpful; goodwill.
Patience
Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US and Canada.
Grace
Mercy; clemency.
Patience
The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.
Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long-suffering.
I must have patience to endure the load.
Who hath learned lowlinessFrom his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross.
Grace
A favor rendered by one who need not do so; indulgence.
Patience
The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Grace
A temporary immunity or exemption; a reprieve.
Patience
Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
He learned with patience, and with meekness taught.
Grace
Graces Greek & Roman Mythology Three sister goddesses, known in Greek mythology as Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, who dispense charm and beauty.
Patience
Sufferance; permission.
They stay upon your patience.
Grace
Divine favor bestowed freely on people, as in granting redemption from sin.
Patience
A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
Grace
The state of having received such favor.
Patience
Solitaire.
Grace
An excellence or power granted by God.
Patience
Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Grace
A short prayer of blessing or thanksgiving said before or after a meal.
Patience
A card game played by one person
Grace
Grace Used with His, Her, or Your as a title and form of address for a duke, duchess, or archbishop.
Grace
(Music) An appoggiatura, trill, or other musical ornament in the music of 16th and 17th century England.
Grace
To honor or favor
You grace our table with your presence.
Grace
To give beauty, elegance, or charm to.
Grace
(Music) To embellish with grace notes.
Grace
Charming, pleasing qualities.
The Princess brought grace to an otherwise dull and boring party.
Grace
(countable) A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
It has become less common to say grace before having dinner.
Grace
In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.
Grace
A grace note.
Grace
(uncountable) Elegant movement; balance or poise.
The dancer moved with grace and strength.
Grace
An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
The repayment of the loan starts after a three-year grace.
Grace
Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.
Grace
An act or decree of the governing body of an English university.
Grace
(transitive) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
He graced the room with his presence.
He graced the room by simply being there.
His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.
Grace
(transitive) To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
Grace
(transitive) To supply with heavenly grace.
Grace
To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
Grace
The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
To bow and sue for graceWith suppliant knee.
Grace
The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.
And if by grace, then is it no more of works.
My grace is sufficicnt for thee.
Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.
Grace
The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.
Grace
Fortune; luck; - used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune.
Grace
Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
He is complete in feature and in mind.With all good grace to grace a gentleman.
I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing.
Grace
Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else.
I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift.
Grace
Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse.
The Graces love to weave the rose.
The Loves delighted, and the Graces played.
Grace
The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.
How fares your Grace !
Grace
Thanks.
Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus.
Grace
A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.
Grace
Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.
Grace
An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.
Grace
A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.
That day of grace fleets fast away.
The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health.
To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper.
Content to do the profession some grace.
What might have been done with a good grace would at leastbe done with a bad grace.
Grace
To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.
We are graced with wreaths of victory.
Grace
To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.
He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he wouldin court.
Grace
To supply with heavenly grace.
Grace
To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
Grace
(Bhristian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who under such divine influence;
The conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin
It was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church
The Virgin lived in a state of grace
Grace
Elegance and beauty of movement or expression
Grace
A sense of propriety and consideration for others
Grace
A disposition to kindness and compassion; benign good will;
The victor's grace in treating the vanquished
Grace
(Greek mythology) one of three sisters who were the givers of beauty and charm; a favorite subject for sculptors
Grace
A short prayer of thanks before a meal
Grace
(Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God;
God's grace is manifested in the salvation of sinners
There but for the grace of God go I
Grace
Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.;
Decorate the room for the party
Beautify yourself for the special day
Grace
Be beautiful to look at;
Flowers adorned the tables everywhere
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