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saving grace

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Saving Grace is a 2000 British comedy film , directed by Nigel Cole and based on a screenplay by Mark Crowdy and Craig Ferguson . It was co-produced by Fine Line Features , Homerun Productions, Portman Entertainment, Sky Pictures, and Wave Pictures and ...

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n. (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 ...

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n. A redeeming quality or factor.

Usage examples of saving grace.

How doth the saving grace of God discover itself when it is in the heart of man?

He seemed to look it, and the saving grace in Carrie was that she could understand that people could be wiser.

Adele had the saving grace of knowing she was clumsy on shipboard.

If any one indignantly denies that such a thing is possible in a saint, and insists that such a character is a stranger to saving grace, we would remind him of David: was not the murder of Uriah definitely planned?

It seems that the latter's only saving grace is the settlement of Rabaul, a formerly British port complete with a cricket oval, now the linchpin of Nipponese forces in Southwest Asia.