What's the difference between vouchsafe and vouchsafing?

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.

Vouchsafing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) 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.

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