the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Afford
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; - with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.
(2):
(v. t.) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age.
(3):
(v. t.) To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.
(4):
(v. t.) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Afford'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/afford.html. 1828.
