Grace - what is it? Meaning and usage examples

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47

People ask, "What is mercy?" Because the world is mostly harsh and unfair. In fact, he was almost always like that. Only Adam and Eve tasted the fruits of the trees of Paradise, and we are forced to live in suffering, deprivation and pain, relying only on the mercy of God.

Semantic content of the concept

The battery of values looks like this:

1. Kind, sympathetic attitude towards a person. “Mercy” is similar in content to the word “pity”. True, such a turn of speech is typical for novels of the 19th century, for example, the works of Dostoevsky.

2. Grace is trust, affection. For example, they used to say: "Get into mercy." Now such a turnover is not only rare, you will not meet it. Now they say "get into confidence".

3. Grace is a gift, a favor, a beneficence. The example that was above about "God's mercy" is quite suitable for illustrating this meaning. On the one hand, a person in an evil and cold world can count on the kindness of God, and on the other hand, the kindnessGod, like man, is a gift and beneficence.

4. "Your Grace" - this is how they used to address the nobles and landowners. Now this expression can only be found in an ironic sense. For example, the Chief, Ivan Petrovich, his grace, finally raised our wages, gentlemen!

5. "By your grace." Here "mercy" is synonymous with "will." And surprisingly, mercy, which initially has a good meaning, changes the emotional charge from positive to negative. For example, a girl Katya says to a classmate: “By your grace, Petrov, at first I scrubbed the board from indecent words, and then they left me after school to talk about behavior, and all because you set me up, I know it’s you wrote those nasty words on the blackboard!”.

6. Something good that adds positive emotions, pleasant, gentle, and it can be both a thing and a living object, action or deed. Kittens immediately come to mind, small, fluffy and hooligan, with which everyone is touched, except for those who are allergic to them.

So we got to the end of the list and figured out the meaning of the word "mercy". Turns out there are six of them. Moving on.

Ernest Hemingway is the cutest writer

Strange title for someone who created the image of a man, and yet it is. And it is not clear where it came from. But if you read the prose of the American classic, first in Russian, and then in English, then the words "cute" in the Russian version, and nice in English are quite common. Although,Perhaps the translators are to blame. But, one way or another, Hemingway's prose returns the beautiful word "mercy" and its derivatives to the Russian language. Therefore, it is urgent to read the author of “Farewell to Arms” in order to quickly become human. If we allow ourselves some liberties, then we can say that mercy is Hemingway's prose.

Compassion and mercy

Milost is leaving the active vocabulary, and cuteness was actively entering it via the Net. It is difficult to say where this word originated from, there is a suspicion that all this is the influence of Japanese culture, namely anime. There, everyone is touched, plays with their faces and exclaims: “Kawai!”. This word can be translated in much the same way as the English nice - cute, good, kind.

It's true that the craze for little kids, cats, romantic dinners, tearful soap operas and shows discredits "cuteness", and there is a tendency to call things cute, contrary to the general trend, not cute things.

But the main thing is not this, but the fact that behind the general enthusiasm for cats, kids and love stories, a person forgets the true meaning of the term "mercy". It is unnecessary to give a definition, because the word has meanings, let the reader choose any of them to his taste.