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What (who) is vouchsafe - definition
vouchsafe
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(vouchsafes, vouchsafing, vouchsafed)
If you are vouchsafed something or it is vouchsafed to you, you are given or granted it. (FORMAL)
As we approached the summit we were vouchsafed a rare vision...
Eric gritted his teeth and vouchsafed them a few more drops of brandy...
'He drives like a madman,' was all the information he vouchsafed.
VERB: be V-ed n, V n n, V n, also V n to n
Vouchsafe
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·vt To receive or accept in condescension.
vouchsafe
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¦ verb give, grant, or disclose in a gracious or condescending manner.
Origin
ME: orig. as the phr. vouch something safe on someone, i.e. 'warrant the secure conferment of'.
Examples of use of vouchsafe
1. Nor could it have been too difficult for the terrorists to carry out the attack because the Taliban has perceptively grown stronger in recent months, as Hamid Karzai would vouchsafe.
2. Foreigners who knew him in the heyday of the anti–Taliban resistance in the 1''0s would vouchsafe that he was destined to rise high in the political arena.
3. And homosexuals are demanding the government vouchsafe them the right to bear children." Alito said he had never seen the article and called the views in it "antithetical" to his beliefs.
4. The people in the Amu Darya region in northern Afghanistan would vouchsafe that General Rashid Dostum‘s behavior can be depended on as an unfailing barometer of their country‘s political climate.
5. "Everywhere one turns, blacks and Hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they‘re black and Hispanic. . . . Homosexuals are demanding the government vouchsafe them the right to bear children. . . . And now come women." Alito said he had read none of the articles, adding, "I would not have anything to do with statements of that nature." Kennedy then called on Specter to subpoena records on the alumni group held in the Library of Congress.