Vouchsafe

Definitions: Vouchsafe

Vouchsafe

Verb

1. Grant in a condescending manner.

2. Promise or agree condescendingly, as a special favor.

Date "vouchsafe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Vouchsafe

Synonym: Condescend. (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Consent	Satisfy, meet one's wishes, settle, come to terms; not refuse; turn a willing ear; (willingness); jump at; deign, vouchsafe; promise.
Humility	Verb: be humble; Adjective: deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself, demean oneself; stoop, stoop to conquer; carry coals; submit; submit with a good grace; (brook); yield the palm.
Permission	Verb: permit; give permission; Noun: give power; let, allow, admit; suffer, bear with, tolerate, recognize; concede; accord, vouchsafe, favor, humor, gratify, indulge, stretch a point; wink at, connive at; shut one's eyes to.
Request	Adverb: prithee, do, please, pray; be so good as, be good enough; have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Vouchsafe

English words defined with "vouchsafe": Vouchsafed, Vouchsafing. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman, Of these supposed crimes to give me leave By circumstance but to acquit myself.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Vouchsafe" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Vouchsafe" is used about 9 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 (infinitive)	66.67%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)	33.33%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

Expression using "vouchsafe": vouchsafe smb. no answer. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "vouchsafe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		jap (accord, adjudge, administer, afford, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, come through, concede, deliver, dish, dispense, furnish, get through, give, give in, hand in, impart, land, lend, pay, present, produce, provide, reach, throw, yield), denjoj (condescend, deign, dignify), akordoj (accord, confer, tune, tune up). (various references)

Arabic		‏تلطف بتسليم, ‏تعطف (condescend), ‏أعطى (afford, award, bear, bestow, deign, give, hand, mete), ‏أجاز (accredit, allow, clear, endorse, indorse, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimize, licence, license, patent, permit, sanction, steam roller, warrant). (various references)

Bulgarian		удостоявам с (confer), благоволявам (condescend, deign, favour, please, stoop). (various references)

Czech		ráèit udìlit. (various references)

Farsi		پذیرفتن (Accept, Admit, Allow, Embrace, Hear, Listen, Matriculate, Receive), لطفاحاضرشدن , تفویض کردن (Abdicate, Devolve, Lodge, Resign), تسلیم شدن (Abandon, Acquiesce, Capitulate, Defer, Givein, Knuckle, Obey, Quit, Submit, Succumb, Surrender), عطاکردن , اعطاکردن (Award, Grant, Vest), بخشیدن (Bestow, Betake, Condone, Dispense, Donate, Forgive, Give, Giveaway, Grant, Indulgence, Pardon, Pleasure, Portion, Privilege, Remit, Spare). (various references)

Finnish		hän ei suonut minulle silmäystäkään (he did not vouchsafe me a glance). (various references)

French		octroyer, condescendre, accorder (voice). (various references)

German		gewähren (accord, afford, bestow, bestowal, deign, extend, furnish, give, grant, impart, to accord, to afford, to allow, to deign, to grant). (various references)

Greek		συγκατατίθεμαι να δώσω, παραχωρώ (allot, allow, bestow, cede, concede, grant, resign, yield), ασφαλίζω (assure, insure, moor, secure, secure from, underwrite). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ואיל למסור. (various references)

Hungarian		teljesít (accomplish, achieve, comply, consummate, fulfil, fulfill, implement, keep, observe, perform, satisfy, to accomplish, to carry out, to comply with, to deliver the goods, to follow the sea, to fulfil, to get through, to implement, to make good, to perform, to vouchsafe), megenged (allow, had, permit, to admit, to admit of, to allow of, to grant, to have, to tolerate, to vouchsafe). (various references)

Italian		garantire (assure, avouch, ensure, guarantee, guaranty, insure, secure, sponsor, to act as surety, to be someone's guarantor, to go bail for, to go surety, to guarantee, to secure, to stand security, to stand surely to, to stand surety, undertake, underwrite, vouch, vouch for, warrant), accordare (accord, confer, grant, key, make agree, reach an agreement, tune, tune up). (various references)

Manx		cooidsave. (various references)

Pig Latin		ouchsafevay

Portuguese		outorgar (accord, bestow, concede, confer, grant), dignar-se a, condescender a, conceder (accord, adjudge, afford, allow, award, bestow, concede, deign, give, grant, impart, yield). (various references)

Romanian		conferi (award, concede, confer), binevoi sã acorde, admite (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, allow of, appoint, approve, assume, avow, Brook, concede, confess, contain, enter, grant, receive, suffer, take for granted, tolerate), acorda (accommodate, accord, adjust, afford, agree, allow, attach, attune, award, confer, dovetail, extend, fit, give, grant, invest, key, lend, offer, pay, pitch, place, reconcile, set, tally, temper), învrednici (favour, honor, honour). (various references)

Russian		удостаивать (deign, honor, honour). (various references)

Scottish		deònaich (give consent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		udostojiti (dignify), odobravati (indorse, permit, say ditto to). (various references)

Spanish		condescender a dar algo, conceder (accord, admint, admit to, allow, award, concede, confer, give, grant, own, show, vest). (various references)

Swedish		bevärdigas (deign). (various references)

Turkish		tenezzül etmek (condescend, deign, patronize, please, stoop), tenezzül edip yapmak, lütfetmek (condescend, deign, do the favor, do the favour, grace, oblige), ihsan etmek. (various references)

Ukranian		удостоювати (grace), переносити (bear, carry, carry over, endure, move about, move around, transfer, waft). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vouchsafe": vouchsafed, vouchsafement, vouchsafements, vouchsafes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-h-o-s-u-v"
	-1 letter: avouches.
	-2 letters: vouches.
	-3 letters: avouch, chafes, chouse, chufas, fauces, fauves, foveas, fucose, havocs, ouches.
	-4 letters: aches, cafes, cause, caves, chafe, chaos, chase, chefs, chose, chufa, coves, echos, faces, fauve, faves, favus, focus, fovea, haves, havoc, hocus, house, oaves, sauce, sauch, schav, shave, sheaf, shove, soave, suave, uveas, voces, vouch.
	-5 letters: aces, ache, aves, avos, cafe.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-h-o-s-u-v"
	+1 letter: vouchsafed, vouchsafes.
	+4 letters: vouchsafement.
	+5 letters: vouchsafements.
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