vouchsafe
verb (used with object)
to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension.
have vouchsafed
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present perfectof vouchsafe.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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We shall know more about them all, in half an hour, from you, than Miss Fairfax would have vouchsafed in half a year.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
O Pauline! when Jesus shall have vouchsafed me this grace, I wish to give myself entirely to Him, to suffer always for Him, to live for Him alone.
From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) Taylor
I promised when we should reach Paris to speak the truth, Count Schulenberg; and as you are not satisfied with as much as I have vouchsafed, hear the whole truth.
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
"The admiral is in a gracious humor, Leigh, to have vouchsafed you so long a letter."
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
To those who have vouchsafed for us the permanence of the higher ideals of humanity and civilization.
From America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell
