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
If the Pall Mall Critic knew Greek, I am rather surprised he should have vouchsafed even so much praise as the words p. 217you quoted.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by William Aldis Wright
He would have vouchsafed them not even a passing thought but for the strangely guilty glance that one of them shot in his direction.
From Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
"Well, General, since you have vouchsafed to turn your attention to that lady, whom I never saw till now, have the charity to tell me if you have seen her dance."
From Domestic Peace by Clara Bell
Though, to the immortal honour of some captains be it said, the fact is upon navy record, that off Cape Horn, they have vouchsafed the morning hammocks to their crew.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
