Vouchsafe: Definition and part of speech

Vouchsafe

  1. v. i. To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.
  2. v. t. To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.
  3. v. t. To receive or accept in condescension.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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