Meaning of దయ in English
- The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
- An act of kindness; good done; charity given.
- A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.
- The quality of being chary.
- The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
- The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.
- The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.
- The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.
- Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune.
- Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
- Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
- Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse.
- The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.
- Thanks.
- A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.
- Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.
- An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.
- A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.
- To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
- To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.
- To supply with heavenly grace.
- To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
- Quality of being gracious.
- Natural inclination; natural course.
- The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words.
- Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season.
- The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.
- A kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great kindness.
- To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.
- The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals.
- of Mercy
- Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.
- Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence.
- Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.
- A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or favor.
- The quality or state of being pithy.
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