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Definition of Saving grace

1. Noun. (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who is under such divine influence. "The Virgin lived in a state of grace"

2. Noun. A redeeming quality or characteristic. "The saving grace for both developments is that they are creating jobs"

Definition of Saving grace

1. Noun. A redeeming quality or factor. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saving Grace

savest savestate savestates saveth savey saveyed saveying saveys savin savinase

savinases savine savines saving saving(a) saving grace (current term) saving throw saving throws savingly savingness

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Literary usage of Saving grace

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1846)
"Well, if you will, we will fall to it now: and since you left it with me to state the question, let it be this: How doth the saving grace of God discover ..."

2. Selections from the Unpublished Writings of Jonathan Edwards, of America by Jonathan Edwards (1865)
"SUCH phrases as common grace, and special or saving grace, ... So likewise the phrase, special or saving grace, is sometimes used to signify that peculiar ..."

3. Selections from the Unpublished Writings of Jonathan Edwards, of America by Jonathan Edwards (1865)
"... and so I would be understood by these phrases in this discourse. — And that special or saving grace in this sense is not only different ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Shepard: First Pastor of the First Church, Cambridge by Thomas Shepard (1853)
"... and to bring it to perfection; so it is with the lighter strokes of common grace. CHAPTER XXH. THAT TRUE saving grace IN THE HEARTS OF BELIEVERS CAN ..."

5. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards (1844)
"It is a doctrine mightily in vogue, that God has promised his saving grace to men's sincere endeavors in praying for it, and using proper means to obtain it ..."

6. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"Differences between spiritual gifts and saving grace. THEIR nature in general, which in the next place we inquire into, will be much discovered in the ..."

7. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer, John William Cunliffe (1915)
"At all events his job, not by order of the ' organization,' the bills were enacted into laws in the but solely by the saving grace of fitness form that Dr. ..."

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