YEAR OF GRACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does year of grace mean? 

• YEAR OF GRACE (noun)
  The noun YEAR OF GRACE has 1 sense:

1. any year of the Christian era

  Familiarity information: YEAR OF GRACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YEAR OF GRACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any year of the Christian era

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("year of grace" is a kind of...):

twelvemonth; year; yr (a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days)

 Context examples 

Through Hawke Stone and Benbow Stone we came down to my father, Anson Stone, who in his turn christened me Rodney, at the parish church of St. Thomas at Portsmouth in the year of grace 1786.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)