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saving grace

saving grace noun: a redeeming quality or factor.

Noun

saving grace (countable and uncountable, plural saving graces)

  1. (countable) A redeeming quality or factor.
    • For all his treachery and deception, he had one saving grace: good manners.
    • With Gambier Bay and Hoel sinking and Roberts not much longer for this world, the Johnston is now set upon by four cruisers and a number of destroyers. The ship's crew patch holes as fast as they can, but the ship is literally gradually being taken apart by repeated salvos. The fact that this...2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 31:46 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022
  2. God's grace or blessing, enabling sinners to attain salvation.

saving grace meaning in Malayalam

saving grace in Malayalam

good point, redeeming feature, thing in its favour
ഒരു ദെെവാധീനം, ദെെവകൃപ, ദെെവാധീനം, ദെെവാനുഗ്രഹം, നല്ലവശം, അനുകൂലഗുണം

Forms of saving grace

pluralsaving graces

Questions about saving grace

What does saving grace mean?
Saving grace means a redeeming quality or factor.
What is saving grace in Malayalam?
Saving grace in Malayalam is ഒരു ദെെവാധീനം, ദെെവകൃപ, ദെെവാധീനം. See Saving grace meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is saving grace?
Saving grace is a noun.
What is the plural of saving grace?
The plural of saving grace is saving graces.

Words near saving grace in the dictionary

  1. saving as
  2. saving by the bell
  3. saving down
  4. saving face
  5. saving for a rainy day
  6. saving grace
  7. saving graces
  8. saving it
  9. saving one's breath
  10. saving one's breath to cool one's porridge
  11. saving one's neck

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saving grace (page history and authors); saving grace (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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