Vouchsafe vs Vouch - What's the difference?
vouchsafe | vouch |
To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
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* South
To receive or accept in condescension.
To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.
To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.
* Atterbury
To back; to support; to confirm.
* Milton
To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
* Blackstone
(obsolete) To call; to summon.
* Sir T. Elyot
To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
* Jonathan Swift
To call as a witness.
* Dryden
To assert; to aver; to declare.
Warrant; attestation.
As verbs the difference between vouchsafe and vouch
is that vouchsafe is to graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge while vouch is to take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.As a noun vouch is
warrant; attestation.vouchsafe
English
Verb
- It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathens the means of salvation.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "vouchsafe")Synonyms
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Verb
(es)- They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it.
- I can vouch that the match took place.
- Me damp horror chilled / At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold.
- He vouches' the tenant in tail, who ' vouches over the common vouchee.
- [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.
- He will not believe her until the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of what she has affirmed.
- Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon.
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