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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Example Sentences

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

To say that in this year of grace and achievement, 1946, is ... a most vicious form of propaganda..

From Time Magazine Archive

The date of this removal, I think, is recorded as of the year of grace sixteen hundred and ninety-four.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.