year of grace

1. 1.

   any year of the Christian era

   Broaderyear

Questions about year of grace

What does year of grace mean?

year of grace means "any year of the Christian era".

Is year of grace a common word?

year of grace is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.