vouchsafe

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
22
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˌvaʊt͡ʃˈseɪf/
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/ˌvaʊt͡ʃˈseɪf/ · [ˌvʌʊtʃˈseɪf]

Definition of vouchsafe

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
    “If Brutus will vouchſafe that Antony / May ſafely come to him ...”
    “Wilt thou, whoſe will is large and ſpacious, / Not once vouchſafe to hide my will in thine?”
    “Needless to say, we have been vouchsafed no idea of what this might cost the innocent victims, the ratepayers.”
    “The fundamentalist is concerned with what accords with some ultimate, sacred truth, as vouchsafed to an ancestral scribe or prophet, and not with traditions of human errancy.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
    “If Brutus will vouchſafe that Antony / May ſafely come to him ...”
    “Wilt thou, whoſe will is large and ſpacious, / Not once vouchſafe to hide my will in thine?”
    “Needless to say, we have been vouchsafed no idea of what this might cost the innocent victims, the ratepayers.”
    “The fundamentalist is concerned with what accords with some ultimate, sacred truth, as vouchsafed to an ancestral scribe or prophet, and not with traditions of human errancy.”
  2. (intransitive)To receive or accept in condescension.
  3. (transitive)To disclose or divulge.
    “She vouchsafed to me that she regretted ever marrying him.”
    “His predictions were at first to be guided by direct intimations vouchsafed to him by the god; […]”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From vouch + safe, written as two words in Middle English and early Modern English.

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