graciousness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GRA'CIOUSNESS, noun Kind condescension. 1. Possession of graces or good qualities. 2. Pleasing manner. 3. Mercifulness. CRACK'LE, noun [Latin graculus.] A genus of birds, the Gracula, of which the crow-blackbird is a species.
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