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Vouchsafe


VOUCHSAFE, verb intransitive [vouch and safe; to vouch or answer for safety.]

1. To permit to be done without danger.

2. To condescend to grant.

Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?

It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathen the means of

salvation.

VOUCHSAFE, verb intransitive To condescend; to deign; to yield.

VOUCHSAFE, illustrious Ormond, to behold What powr the charms of

beauty had of old.