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"etymology_text": "vouch + safe, written as two words in Middle English and early Modern English.",
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"ref": "1599?, William Shakespeare, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, Julius Caesar, Act III, scene i, page 119",
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"text": "Wilt thou, whoſe will is large and ſpacious, / Not once vouchſafe to hide my will in thine?",
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"roman": "blagovoljavam",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "благоволявам"
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
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"roman": "boʒeba",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "აღიარება"
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "gewähren"
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
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"roman": "udostáivatʹ",
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
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"To receive or accept in condescension."
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"ipa": "[ˌvʌʊtʃˈseɪf]",
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"ref": "1609, William Shakespeare, Shake-speares sonnets: Neuer before Imprinted, London: G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe], and are to be solde by William Aspley, →OCLC, sonnet 135",
"text": "Wilt thou, whoſe will is large and ſpacious, / Not once vouchſafe to hide my will in thine?",
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"To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "blagovoljavam",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "благоволявам"
},
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "genadig toestaan"
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{
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "accorder de manière clémente"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "boʒeba",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "ბოძება"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "micema",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "მიცემა"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "aɣiareba",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "აღიარება"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "gewähren"
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"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "axióno",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "αξιώνω"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
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"word": "zaszczycać"
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
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"word": "zaszczycić"
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "permitir"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "udostáivatʹ",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
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"word": "удоста́ивать"
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"tags": [
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "bahşetmek"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "ihsan etmek"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "Condescendingly grant a right",
"word": "lütfetmek"
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"word": "vouchsafe"
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