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vouchsafe

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vouch·safe  (vouch-sf, vouchsf)
tr.v. vouch·safed, vouch·saf·ing, vouch·safes
To condescend to grant or bestow (a privilege, for example); deign.
[Middle English vouchen sauf, to warrant as safe : vouchen, to warrant; see vouch + sauf, safe; see safe.]
vouch·safement n.
vouchsafe
Verb
[-safing, -safed]
1. Old-fashioned to give or grant: she has powers vouchsafed to few
2. to offer assurances about; guarantee: he absolutely vouchsafed your integrity [vouch + safe]
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Verb1.vouchsafe - grant in a condescending manner
grant, allow - let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"


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This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight--perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.
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They prayed: "Endow them with continence and fruitfulness, and vouchsafe that their hearts may rejoice looking upon their sons and daughters.
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"O thou," she cried, "that encirclest the earth, vouchsafe to grant the prayers of thy servants that call upon thee.
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