Dictionary entry

Vouchsafe

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Vouch‐safe″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Vouchsafed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Vouchsafing.] [Vouch + safe, that is, to vouch or answer for safety.]

1. To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.

If ye vouchsafe that it be so. Chaucer.

Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two? Shak.

It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathens the means of salvation. South.

2. To receive or accept in condescension. Shak.