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vouchsafing
English
Verb
vouchsafing
- present participle of vouchsafe
Noun
vouchsafing (plural vouchsafings)
- The act of one who vouchsafes something.
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vouchsafe
English
Etymology
vouch +? safe, written as two words in Middle English and early Modern English.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?va?t??se?f/
- (Canada) IPA(key): [?v??t??se?f]
- Rhymes: -e?f
- Hyphenation: vouch?safe
Verb
vouchsafe (third-person singular simple present vouchsafes, present participle vouchsafing, simple past and past participle vouchsafed)
- To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
- To receive or accept in condescension.
- 1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 8:
- Nancy's lips parted abruptly, as if there were angry words all ready to come; but her eyes, resting on Pollyanna's jubilantly trustful face, saw something that prevented the words being spoken.
"Humph!" she vouchsafed. Then, showing her old-time interest, she went on: "But, say, it is queer, his speakin' to you, honestly, Miss Pollyanna. He don't speak ter no one; and he lives all alone in a great big lovely house all full of jest grand things, they say. Some says he's crazy, and some jest cross; and some says he's got a skeleton in his closet."
- Nancy's lips parted abruptly, as if there were angry words all ready to come; but her eyes, resting on Pollyanna's jubilantly trustful face, saw something that prevented the words being spoken.
- 1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 8:
- To disclose or divulge.
- She vouchsafed to me that she regretted ever marrying him.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:vouchsafe.
Synonyms
- deign
Related terms
- vouchsafement
- vouchsafing
Translations
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