Vouchsafe

Definition

vouchsafe /vaƱtʃ'seÇf/ v ~ sth (to sb) ( dated or fml ) သဒၶာ ေတာ္မူသည္။ ေပးသနားသည္။ He vouchsafed to me certain family secrets.

Examples

1. ‘For him it was a means of revealing the divine principle and concretizing a personal vision of the Supreme Being that had been vouchsafed to him.’
2. ‘Catholic opinion was united in its disapproval of the privileges vouchsafed to them by the edict.’
3. ‘We believe that artists are somehow vouchsafed the ability to tap into a greater knowledge of the human condition and impart this to us.’
4. ‘Recall the exaggerated influence vouchsafed
5. not too long ago
6. to psychoanalytic theory.’
7. ‘If they fall into that delusion
8. they are doomed and no second reprieve will be vouchsafed them.’
9. ‘The two lovers are privileged to witness the assumption and are vouchsafed a vision of heaven.’
10. ‘When the author indulges his ability to frolic away from the described path (the path
11. the sole path to which the audience has vouchsafed its interest)
12. the less interested the audience becomes.’
13. ‘DoubleClick's shares plummeted on Thursday
14. largely on news of several impending investigations of its privacy policies
15. vouchsafing it the un-enviable distinction of leading the NASDAQ's losers for the day.’
16. ‘A terribly 90s enlightenment
17. of course
18. combining the pleasant notion that the experiences vouchsafed to you aren't for the common man with the assurance that you don't actually have to do any work for them
19. you just have to take part.’
20. ‘In reality
21. there can be no truly riskless asset - death and taxes remain the only certainties vouchsafed to human beings.’
22. ‘And yet that billboard vouchsafes to one of the novel's minor characters
23. J. Edgar's ghostly Sister
24. a vision of beatitude.’
25. ‘Yet while it seems fair to ascribe to these pieces the ‘legendary’ status vouchsafed them in the leaflet
26. this is not enough.’
27. ‘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.’
28. ‘Even that much explanation is unlikely to be vouchsafed to Michael Wills and his colleagues as they return to the back benches.’
29. ‘He seems to know stuff no one else is aware of
30. perhaps vouchsafed to him through a special revelation.’
31. ‘I noted
32. with the thrill that circumstances vouchsafe to an active scholar only a few times in a full career
33. that Agassiz had penciled copious marginal notes into this copy.’
34. ‘If God sends or raises up among us someone who can feed our souls
35. let us receive him with joy and thankfulness from God
36. according to the gift that has been vouchsafed to him.'’
37. ‘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.’
38. ‘Lenin's intention was that the testament should remain secret; but his secretary vouchsafed its contents to Stalin.’
39. ‘Ten chapters later
40. we are vouchsafed some extra details.’