What is "affords"

Usage examples of "affords".

I cannot imagine why you should be in such dread of a feeling which affords me the most intense pleasure.

I have lived retired here, it affords no variety to entertain you, and may be almost considered as one day.

I will venture to say the highest life is much the dullest, and affords very little humour or entertainment.

If this larval and spectral world, where the platitudinous and the absurd swarm in even greater abundance than on earth, affords us some notion of the state of the soul when separated from the body, then I shall doubtless pass my eternity in regretting the exquisite control which our senses now provide, and the adjusted perspectives offered by human reason.