ungrace

plural ungraces

1. countableuncountableThe lack, absence, or antithesis of grace; gracelessness.

   However, as costly as grace is, ungrace costs more.

   2005, Dee Brestin, Woman of Purpose

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   The evil ungraces of the wicked Devil are thus called in Latin speech: […]

   1830, Henry Soames, Inquiry Into the Doctrines of the Anglo-Saxon Church

   There is the contract between ungrace religion and a spirituality that is grace and compassion.

   2008, Eugene C. Rollins, Grace Is Not a Blue-eyed Blonde

   Every institution, it seems, runs on ungrace and its insistence that we earn our way.

   2009, Philip Yancey, Where Is God When it Hurts/What's So Amazing About Grace?

present singular third person ungraces · participle present ungracing · participle past ungraced · past ungraced

1. transitiveTo undo or remove grace; render grace ineffective; make ungraceful or ungracious.

   It is another one of those experiences of ungracing the grace of God and putting boundaries, putting dogmas, putting creeds around the grace of God that ungraces the grace of God.

   2008, Eugene C. Rollins, Grace Is Not a Blue-eyed Blonde