Vouchsafe vs Voucher - What's the difference?
vouchsafe | voucher |
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.
A piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.
A receipt.
One who or that which vouches.
* 1836 , The New Sporting Magazine (volume 11, page 227)
To establish the authenticity of; to vouch for.
To provide a vouch for (an expenditure).
To provide (a beneficiary) with a voucher.
As verbs the difference between vouchsafe and voucher
is that vouchsafe is to graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc; to deign to acknowledge while voucher is to establish the authenticity of; to vouch for.As a noun voucher is
a piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.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
* deignvoucher
English
Noun
(en noun)- To the fashionable world he cannot be a stranger and his having married a sister of the Duke of Leeds is a voucher for my assertion.