year of grace

American  

noun

1. a specified year of the Christian era.

   this year of grace; the year of grace 1982.

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year of grace British  

noun

1. any year of the Christian era, as dated from the presumed date of Christ's birth

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year of grace

Good for brilliant young DeMeco Ryans for extracting a six-year contract from the Houston Texans — and he will need every year of grace to fix the bubbling mess he stepped into.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2023

“I do believe this needs to be a year of grace for our schools,” Wright told members of the Senate Education Committee.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2021

This sentence, which outlined what would and would not be told, was also my first exposure to the convention of the severed date: "I take up my pen in the year of grace 17–."

From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2013

The present year of grace, 1923, therefore passes for Omar's 800th anniversary year.

From Time Magazine Archive

They may in this year of grace, but where will the boundary of continuous brick and mortar be set ten years hence? and where will then be the pleasant resorts of the present-day wheelman?

From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper