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

Another rule allows him a year of grace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why two Englishmen when they met in Paris about the year of grace 1805 should plunge into a complimentary dialogue in Dutch, is not very clear.

From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by Brown, J. Irwin