fallen from grace
No longer esteemed
Fallen from grace describes someone who has lost favor, status, or respect, usually due to their own moral failure or misconduct.
The phrase originates in religious contexts where grace meant divine favor, and to fall from it was to lose God's blessing through sin.
Today it applies more broadly to anyone who has tumbled from a position of admiration or power: The CEO fell from grace after the scandal broke.
It implies not just failure but a kind of disgrace—a fall that is at least partly deserved.
- defrockedStripped of religious office
- dishonoredBrought shame upon
- shamedMade to feel disgrace
- demotedReduced in rank
- discreditedProven unworthy of trust
scandal · excommunicated · tarnished · ostracized · infamy · dethroned · downfall · riches to rags · rock bottom · redemption · apostasy · heresy · sin · original sin · salvation · corruption · stigma · repentance
- disgracedishonor, downfall, stigma, scandal, infamy
- declinedecline, in decline, decrease, downswing, on the decline
fallen from gracein good standing
Status of full membership
in favor · respected · honored · revered · celebrated
fallen from gracesaved
Kept from loss
redeemed · sanctified · blessed · forgiven · absolved
fallen from graceon the rise
Becoming greater or more
ascendant · triumphant · made it · come into one's own · riding high
fall, falling, falls, grace, graces, graced, gracing, graceful, gracefully