Definition of "Grace"

To The Handsome Mistress Grace Potter: As is your name, so is your comely face / Touch'd everywhere with such a diffused grace /

1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides

Grace does not belie her name; for she is indeed a sweet girl, modest and unassuming, and appearing to be unconscious of having done anything great or noble. - OBSERVER, Dec.16, 1838.

1839, George William MacArthur Reynolds, Grace Darling, or the Heroine of the Fern Islands, page 24

They named me Grace and waited for a light and agile dancer. / But some trick of genes mixed me up / And instead I turned out big and black and burly.

1965 Naomi Long Madgett: Her Story, Star By Star, Harlo Press

Had I given birth to a daughter of my own, I'd like to have called her Grace, a classic and poetic name, one that illuminates a person of dignity and poise.

2002 June, Deborah Paul, “Amazing Grace”, in Indianapolis Monthly, page 249