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saving grace

A redeeming quality, especially one that compensates for one's shortcomings: The scintillating conversation was the saving grace of a bad and overpriced meal.

saving grace

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a good quality in a person that prevents him or her from being entirely bad or worthless

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Noun	1.	saving grace - (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who is under such divine influence; "the conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin"; "it was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church"; "the Virgin lived in a state of grace" grace, state of grace state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" Christian theology - the teachings of Christian churches
	2.	saving grace - a redeeming quality or characteristic; "her love of music remains her one saving grace"; "her sense of humor has to be a saving grace"; "the saving grace for both developments is that they are creating jobs" characteristic - a distinguishing quality

And I swear that my physical and mental torments, here in my bed, would have been incomparably greater than anything I had endured on the sea, but for the saving grace of one sweet thought.

Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context

He came one day with the book and begged me to read it, having discovered that my interest in Luther was not as living as it ought to be; so I took it out with me into the garden, because the dullest book takes on a certain saving grace if read out of doors, just as bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eaten under a tree.

Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context

But it has at least the saving grace of antiquity to excuse it.

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

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