vouchsafe

[ UK /vˈa‍ʊt‍ʃse‍ɪf/ ]
VERB
  1. grant in a condescending manner
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How To Use vouchsafe In A Sentence

  • It was not sufficient, he thought, for government to protect our rights if it was to vouchsafe our pursuit of happiness. America's Enduring Ideal
  • It is ‘a poem: one of those genuine productions so often vouchsafed to the fortunate public of those days - the golden age of modern literature.
  • As we approached the summit we were vouchsafed a rare vision.
  • Catholic opinion was united in its disapproval of the privileges vouchsafed to them by the edict.
  • And yet that billboard vouchsafes to one of the novel's minor characters, J. Edgar's ghostly Sister, a vision of beatitude.
  • Those who had this secret wisdom of the plants were the chosen of their god; to them alone had he vouchsafed the privilege of access to the heavenly throne.
  • Spirit and word vouchsafe to bl/- ess and sanc/- tify these Thy gifts and creatures of Bread and Wine, that they may be unto us the Body and Studies in the Book of Common Prayer
  • He vouchsafed that his mother, 80 years of age, was an avid Internet fan.
  • In so doing, the church would seem to have vouchsafed the gospel's inextricable relationship to the First Testament.
  • When the author indulges his ability to frolic away from the described path (the path, the sole path to which the audience has vouchsafed its interest), the less interested the audience becomes.
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