year of grace

English

Etymology

Compare French an de grâce.

Noun

year of grace

  1. Synonym of year of our Lord.
    • 1872, Edward Everett Hale, Stand and Wait‎[1]:
      That was the way they happened to be all together in the Methodist Church that had been, of Talbot Court House, as Christmas holidays drew near, of the year of grace, 1863.

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