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

In the year of grace 1928, the U. S. continues to get along with a Congress and an Electoral College modeled as of the year 1910.

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