Word Meanings - VOUCHSAFEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. Glanvill.

Related words: (words related to VOUCHSAFEMENT)

• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• VOUCHSAFEMENT
  The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. Glanvill.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CONDESCENSION
  The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors. It forbids pride . . . and commands humility, modesty, and condescension to others. Tillotson. Such a dignity and
• GRANT
  yield, LL. creantare to promise, assure, for credentare to make believe, fr. L. credens, p. pr. of credere to believe. See 1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
• 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
• GRANTEE
  The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made. His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises. Burke.
• GRANTABLE
  Capable of being granted.
• GRANTER
  One who grants.
• GRANTOR
  The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• INTEGRANT
  Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss
• VAGRANTNESS
  State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• MIGRANT
  Migratory. Sir T. Browne. -- n.
• FLAGRANTLY
  In a flagrant manner.
• VAGRANTLY
  In a vagrant manner.
• INFRAGRANT
  Not fragrant.
• VAGRANT
  waucrer, wacrer, walcrer, to wander , but influenced by F. vagant, p. pr. of vaguer to stray, L. vagari. 1. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading
• TRANSMIGRANT
  Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another. -- n.