Word Meanings - VOUCHSAFE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: VOUCHSAFE

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VOUCHSAFE)

• Condescend
• Stoop
• descend
• deign
• vouchsafe

Related words: (words related to VOUCHSAFE)

• DEIGN
  L. dignari to deem worthy, deign, fr. dignus worthy; akin to decere to be fitting. See Decent, and cf. Dainty, Dignity, Condign, 1. To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines. Shak.
• DESCENDING
  Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs , those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node , that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing
• DESCENDENT
  Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. Pope.
• VOUCHSAFEMENT
  The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. Glanvill.
• DESCENDIBILITY
  The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
• STOOPER
  One who stoops.
• DESCEND
  To move toward the south, or to the southward. (more info) 1. To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite
• CONDESCEND
  1. To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior. "Condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16. Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal
• DEIGNOUS
  Haughty; disdainful. Chaucer.
• STOOPING
  from Stoop. -- Stoop"ing*ly, adv.
• DESCENDIBLE
  1. Admitting descent; capable of being descended. 2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir. "A descendant estate." Sir W. Jones.
• VOUCHSAFE
  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
• DESCENDER
  One who descends.
• DESCENDANT
  Descendent.
• CONDESCENDENCE; CONDESCENDENCY
  Condescension.
• CONDESCENDINGLY
  In a condescending manner. Atterbury.
• STOOP
  Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door
• DESCENDINGLY
  In a descending manner.
• DISDEIGN
  To disdain. Guyon much disdeigned so loathly sight. Spenser.
• REDESCEND
  To descend again. Howell.
• SDEIGN
  To disdain. But either sdeigns with other to partake. Spenser.
• ASTOOP
  In a stooping or inclined position. Gay.