Synonyms for coup de grace

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kooduh grahs

Phonetic Transcription : kudə ˈgrɑs

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Définition of coup de grace

Origin : 1690s, from French coup de grâce, literally "stroke of grace;" the merciful death-blow that ends another's suffering (see coup).

noun finishing blow

Example sentences :

He had bowed his head and waited sullenly for the coup de grace.
Extract from : « "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" » by Douglas English

Nay,” replied Alexander, “it was you that gave him his coup de grace.
Extract from : « The Mission; or Scenes in Africa » by Captain Frederick Marryat

Most probably he died of apoplexy, the tobacco giving him the coup de grace.
Extract from : « The Town » by Leigh Hunt

The way for the coup de grace had to be cleared by strategy and dissimulation.
Extract from : « Homestead » by Arthur G. Burgoyne

It was the middle of a wet June, and the season received its coup de grace.
Extract from : « Endymion » by Benjamin Disraeli

But "Jane Eyre" gave her, for the moment, the coup de grace.
Extract from : « Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign » by Mrs. [Margaret] Oliphant

How was I going to secure my victim before giving the coup de grace?
Extract from : « Jethou » by E. R. Suffling

The exposure was a coup de grace to the system of Mr. Perkins.
Extract from : « Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions » by Charles Mackay

Give him the coup de grace at once, for his own sake as well as for ours.
Extract from : « Little Rivers » by Henry van Dyke

Nor had the belief in the royalty of cotton received its coup de grace.
Extract from : « The Campaign of Chancellorsville » by Theodore A. Dodge

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