| 释义 |
vouchsafement|vaʊtʃˈseɪfmənt|
[f. prec. + -ment.]
1. An act of condescension, grace, or favour; a boon, benefit, or blessing.
1628Gaule Pract. The. (1629) 135 It was a woundrous vouchsafement, that he who inioyed the highth of Diuinitie, should descend to the bottome of Humanitie. 1652J. Pawson Vind. Free Grace 22 Christ hath not purchased any such general vouchsafement to all the children of men. 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. i. i. 59, I am prone to think the early discoveries of such great and important things, to be in God's account no mean vouchsafements. 1726Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 277 To make a judgment how far it will be proper to publish some extraordinary vouchsafements towards them. 1756T. Amory Buncle (1770) I. 187 A merciful vouchsafement from God to mankind. c1800R. Cumberland John de Lancaster (1809) III. 231 That indeed..will be a happiness never to be exceeded, a vouchsafement never to be forgotten. 1822E. Irving Let. in Oliphant Life (1862) I. vi. 135 But these things..delight me not, save as vouchsafements of my Maker's bounty. 1874Pusey Lent. Serm. 184 But by what giant progress in graces, by what undeviating correspondence to Divine vouchsafements in time, must that soul have been formed.
2. The action of conferring or granting some boon, favour, advantage, etc.
1666Glanvill Serm. Luke xiii. 24 in Discourses, etc. (1681) 59 [He] believes..that God is in him of a Truth, in a special way of Manifestation and Vouchsafement. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 22 Reducing them to a..dispair of relief, otherwise than by his merciful hand and vouchsafement. 1683J. Corbet Free Actions iii. xxxiii. 52 God doth ascertain Conversion, by the vouchsafement of such Grace, as doth infallibly produce it. 1721R. Keith tr. T. à Kempis, Solil. Soul xiii. 203 If thou standest astonished at the Vouchsafement of this Union. 1805E. de Acton Nuns of Desert I. 229 Did he not duly administer pardon, and peace, and indulgence, to every one who applied properly to him, for such portions of Divine Vouchsafement? 1847R. W. Hamilton Rewards & Punishm. 316 The sovereign vouchsafement of mercy to some. |