vouchsafe
verb (used with object)
to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension.
vouchsafes
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present tense formof vouchsafe (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Although federal law vouchsafes a right to interpreters, financially strapped hospitals often slide by with a minimum of service.
From Time Magazine Archive
We secure the latter firmly to the couch; the former vouchsafes to deliver a stream of car chases and oh-no-they-locked-themselves-in-the-walk-in-freezer episodes.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Is it the blessed Winifred, who again vouchsafes to address me?”
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
All-sorrowful, I think of him, Longing to move his love; But he vouchsafes no kind response; His thoughts far from me rove.
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson
Read the Holy Scriptures and see how tenderly, yea, how affectionately God vouchsafes to deal with mankind, so that no father or mother upon earth can be more indulgent to their darling child.
From True Christianity by Johann Arndt
