What's the difference between vouchsafe and vouchsafed?
Vouchsafe
Definition:
(v. t.) To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.
(v. t.) To receive or accept in condescension.
(v. i.) To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.
Example Sentences:
(1) In gauging the achievements of surgical treatment it is important to try to measure the quality of functional result vouchsafed to the patient and his capacity for work and recreation.
(2) Her father, the Reverend Hubert Brasier, was killed in a car accident just after May left university, but again, she vouchsafes no details, a reticence that would not be shown by most politicians.
(3) Patel, the only patient who spoke, was vouchsafed a six-minute slot.
(4) Only the elucidation of epidemiological conditions can vouchsafe the definite use of the effective measures possible today.
(5) As for herself, Diana modestly vouchsafed, in a programme that would duly cost her HRH, she wished only to be, “a queen in people’s hearts”.
(6) I hope you guys can tell the difference.” The Snowden-as-traitor camp will take his reluctance to vouchsafe too many details as confirmation that he is, if not a double agent, then a “useful idiot” for the Kremlin.
Vouchsafed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Vouchsafe
Example Sentences:
(1) In gauging the achievements of surgical treatment it is important to try to measure the quality of functional result vouchsafed to the patient and his capacity for work and recreation.
(2) Her father, the Reverend Hubert Brasier, was killed in a car accident just after May left university, but again, she vouchsafes no details, a reticence that would not be shown by most politicians.
(3) Patel, the only patient who spoke, was vouchsafed a six-minute slot.
(4) Only the elucidation of epidemiological conditions can vouchsafe the definite use of the effective measures possible today.
(5) As for herself, Diana modestly vouchsafed, in a programme that would duly cost her HRH, she wished only to be, “a queen in people’s hearts”.
(6) I hope you guys can tell the difference.” The Snowden-as-traitor camp will take his reluctance to vouchsafe too many details as confirmation that he is, if not a double agent, then a “useful idiot” for the Kremlin.