VOUCHSAFED

Definition: VOUCHSAFED

VOUCHSAFED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Vouchsafe

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "VOUCHSAFED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Crosswords: VOUCHSAFED

English words defined with "VOUCHSAFED": Vouchsafement. (references)

Specialty definitions using "VOUCHSAFED": Augustinians ♦ Ignatius Loyola. (references)

Top

Modern Usage: VOUCHSAFED

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I cannot tell you how long this road shall be, but fear not the obstacles in your path, for fate has vouchsafed your reward. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Commercial Usage: VOUCHSAFED

Domain	Title
Books	The Quran = Qur�an majid : the eternal revelation vouchsafed to Muhammed, the Seal of the Prophets (reference) The Quran: the eternal revelation vouchsafed to Muhammad, The Seal of the Prophets: (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Familiar Quotations: VOUCHSAFED

Author	Quotation
Martin Luther	So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top

Speeches: VOUCHSAFED

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921	At last a vision has been vouchsafed us of our life as a whole.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top

Usage Frequency: VOUCHSAFED

"VOUCHSAFED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 68.75% of the time. "VOUCHSAFED" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	68.75%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (past tense)	31.25%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top

Modern Translations: VOUCHSAFED

Language		Translations for "VOUCHSAFED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		gewährte (deigned, granted, imparted). (various references)

Pig Latin		ouchsafedvay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top

Misspellings: VOUCHSAFED

Misspellings
	"VOUCHSAFED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vouchsaged. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top

Anagrams: VOUCHSAFED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-h-o-s-u-v"
	-1 letter: vouchsafe.
	-2 letters: avouched, avouches, couvades.
	-3 letters: choused, coheads, couvade, defocus, douches, focused, hocused, vouched, vouches.
	-4 letters: avouch, cashed, caused, chafed, chafes, chased, chouse, chufas, cohead, coshed, decafs, douche, escudo, fashed, fauces, fauves, foveas, fucose, havocs, housed, ouched, ouches, sauced, shaduf, shaved, shoved, vadose.
	-5 letters: ached, aches, ashed, cades, cafes, cased, cause, caved, caves, chads, chafe.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.