/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Scant-of-grace (A)
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A madcap; a wild, disorderly, graceless fellow.
“You, a gentleman of birth and breeding, … associate yourself with a sort of scant-of-grace, as men call me.”—Sir W. Scott: Kenilworth, iii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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