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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
vouchsafe .
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Examples
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I'd a aunt was cook in a gentleman's fam'ly, and daily he dirtied his thirteen plates -- never more nor never less; and one day -- was ever a woman punished so! her best black silk dress she greased from the top to the bottom, and he sent down nine clean plates, and no word vouchsafed of explanation.
Rhoda Fleming — Complete George Meredith 1868
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I'd a aunt was cook in a gentleman's fam'ly, and daily he dirtied his thirteen plates -- never more nor never less; and one day -- was ever a woman punished so! her best black silk dress she greased from the top to the bottom, and he sent down nine clean plates, and no word vouchsafed of explanation.
Rhoda Fleming — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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"Men are less threatened by me -- they've kind of vouchsafed that," she said.
Beard 2010
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The report summarizes an interview of sorts conducted with Mrs. Conrad Hilton during which she appears to have provided "vouchsafed" information on "current events" in Turkey.
A blonde spy in Ankara AYDIN 2006
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The report summarizes an interview of sorts conducted with Mrs. Conrad Hilton during which she appears to have provided "vouchsafed" information on "current events" in Turkey.
Archive 2006-12-01 AYDIN 2006
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a gentleman's fam'ly, and daily he dirtied his thirteen plates -- never more nor never less; and one day -- was ever a woman punished so! her best black silk dress she greased from the top to the bottom, and he sent down nine clean plates, and no word vouchsafed of explanation.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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"Says there isn't any get-away," Wemple vouchsafed to the other two.
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And to him, Bassett, had been vouchsafed the lordly fortune to be the first to receive this message from man's interstellar kin!
THE RED ONE 2010
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That Cameron and Hague are planning to withold their views on the minor matter of the UK's independence until April 2010 was vouchsafed to us by Mark Francois to the Sunday Telegraph only last week:
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Somewhere in Sprint CEO Dan Hesse's how-to book, this warning must be vouchsafed.
Sprint's iPhone Hail Mary Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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