vouchsafe
verb (used with object)
to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension.
vouchsafed
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past participleof vouchsafe.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof vouchsafe.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
vouchsafeverb (used with object)to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension.
Example Sentences
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Being in Iran hasn’t vouchsafed them much happiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
God has vouchsafed to me a priceless gift in the weapon of ahimsa.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
In a statement in February, however, the Taliban affirmed that the rights vouchsafed to women by Islam included business ownership, inheritance, education, work, choosing one’s husband, security, health, and “a good life.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019
These are meta-lies, second-order lies, lies about the very institutions vouchsafed with testing and examining the truthfulness of political statements.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2017
The calling voices of all those who had fought and to whom it had been vouchsafed to complete their missions.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
