Fall-from-grace Definition

noun
(plural falls from grace)
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verb

(Christianity) To lose God's favour through sins or wrongdoings.

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(figuratively, idiomatic) To fall from one's current social position to something lower, to lose one's prestige, status or power.

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Fall-from-grace Sentence Examples

  • In these they reacted against both the supralapsarian and the infralapsarian developments of the doctrine of predestination and combated the irresistibility of grace; they held that Christ died for all men and not only for the elect, and were not sure that the elect might not fall from grace.

  • Wind is an unwitting victim of the power sector 's fall from grace.

  • Satan was among these types of angels before his fall from grace.

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