"vouchsafe" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˌvaʊt͡ʃˈseɪf/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation], [ˌvʌʊtʃˈseɪf] [Canada] Audio: en-us-vouchsafe.ogg [US], en-au-vouchsafe.ogg [Australia] Forms: vouchsafes [present, singular, third-person], vouchsafing [participle, present], vouchsafed [participle, past], vouchsafed [past]
Rhymes: -eɪf Etymology: From vouch + safe, written as two words in Middle English and early Modern English. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|vouch|safe}} vouch + safe Head templates: {{en-verb}} vouchsafe (third-person singular simple present vouchsafes, present participle vouchsafing, simple past and past participle vouchsafed)
  1. (transitive) To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge. Tags: transitive Synonyms: vouch [archaic] Translations (Condescendingly grant a right): благоволявам (blagovoljavam) (Bulgarian), genadig toestaan (Dutch), vergunnen (Dutch), accorder de manière clémente (French), ბოძება (boʒeba) (Georgian), მიცემა (micema) (Georgian), აღიარება (aɣiareba) (Georgian), gewähren (German), αξιώνω (axióno) (Greek), ottriare (Italian), zaszczycać [imperfective] (Polish), zaszczycić [perfective] (Polish), permitir (Portuguese), удоста́ивать (udostáivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), удосто́ить (udostóitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), bahşetmek (Turkish), ihsan etmek (Turkish), lütfetmek (Turkish)
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  2. (intransitive) To receive or accept in condescension. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-vouchsafe-en-verb-Aq1WcIUg
  3. (transitive) To disclose or divulge. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-vouchsafe-en-verb--gnqcqrD
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: deign Derived forms: vouchsafement, vouchsafer, vouchsafing

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2018, Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity—Creed, Country, Color, Class, Culture, New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 64:",
          "text": "The fundamentalist is concerned with what accords with some ultimate, sacred truth, as vouchsafed to an ancestral scribe or prophet, and not with traditions of human errancy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "graciously",
          "graciously"
        ],
        [
          "give",
          "give"
        ],
        [
          "condescend",
          "condescend"
        ],
        [
          "grant",
          "grant"
        ],
        [
          "deign",
          "deign"
        ],
        [
          "acknowledge",
          "acknowledge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "archaic"
          ],
          "word": "vouch"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              207,
              217
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.\n\"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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To receive or accept in condescension."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "receive",
          "receive"
        ],
        [
          "accept",
          "accept"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To receive or accept in condescension."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
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              4,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "text": "She vouchsafed to me that she regretted ever marrying him.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              67,
              77
            ]
          ],
          "text": "What have the gods told you?\nWhat have you foreseen?\nThe gods have vouchsafed me nothing, told me nothing.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              65,
              75
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 129:",
          "text": "His predictions were at first to be guided by direct intimations vouchsafed to him by the god; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To disclose or divulge."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "disclose",
          "disclose"
        ],
        [
          "divulge",
          "divulge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To disclose or divulge."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌvaʊt͡ʃˈseɪf/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌvʌʊtʃˈseɪf]",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-vouchsafe.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/En-us-vouchsafe.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-vouchsafe.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f4/En-au-vouchsafe.ogg/En-au-vouchsafe.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/En-au-vouchsafe.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪf"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "deign"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "blagovoljavam",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "благоволявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "genadig toestaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "vergunnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "accorder de manière clémente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "lang_code": "ka",
      "roman": "boʒeba",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "ბოძება"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "lang_code": "ka",
      "roman": "micema",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "მიცემა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "lang_code": "ka",
      "roman": "aɣiareba",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "აღიარება"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "gewähren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "lang_code": "el",
      "roman": "axióno",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "αξιώνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "ottriare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "zaszczycać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zaszczycić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "permitir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "udostáivatʹ",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "удоста́ивать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "udostóitʹ",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "удосто́ить"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "note": "соизво́лить pf (soizvólitʹ) + verb (give, grant, etc.)",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "bahşetmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "ihsan etmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
      "word": "lütfetmek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vouchsafe"
}

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