vouchsafe
verb (used with object)
to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension.
will vouchsafe
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future tenseof vouchsafe.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines, Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
Wel, I wil pray to God on hie65 That thou my constancie maist see, And that yet once before I die Thou will vouchsafe to love me.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
For we doubt not but that your sacred Maiesties, after the example of your Christian predecessors, will vouchsafe vnto our countrey also, amongst other Islands of your Maiesties dominion, your kingly care and protection.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
As money is all you can at present want, since they will vouchsafe to send your clothes, I send fifty guineas by the bearer, enclosed in single papers in my Norris's Miscellanies.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
If your arrogance will vouchsafe to listen, hear, slanderer, me too!
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
