Endow vs Vouchsafe - What's the difference?
endow | vouchsafe |
To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); — followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
To bestow freely.
To be furnished with something naturally.
To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
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To receive or accept in condescension.
As verbs the difference between endow and vouchsafe
is that endow is to furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution while vouchsafe is to graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc; to deign to acknowledge.endow
English
Alternative forms
* indow (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was'' ''endowed'' ''with a beautiful voice.
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* endowmentAnagrams
* * * *vouchsafe
English
Verb
- It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathens the means of salvation.