vouchsafe

Object

• sign: Charles kneels and prays to a God he hardly believes in that Julia will be vouchsafed a sign.
• grace: God, that hath vouchsafed grace, you may desire the continuance of his grace, and to crown his own grace.

Modifying Another Word

• not: The chance was not vouchsafed her; the looked-for juncture never came: it was not likely.
• yet: But yet vouchsafe to us, Tityrus, who is this god of thine.
• only: You could not have security, for salvation is only vouchsafe to you through the sealing of the Spirit.
• also: We are also vouchsafed the recent history of Lucinda's miserly uncle who had absconded after her mother's funeral.