Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to vouchsafe
Participle: vouchsafed
Gerund: vouchsafing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | vouchsafe |
| you | vouchsafe |
| he;she;it | vouchsafes |
| we | vouchsafe |
| you | vouchsafe |
| they | vouchsafe |
Perfect
| I | have vouchsafed |
| you | have vouchsafed |
| he;she;it | has vouchsafed |
| we | have vouchsafed |
| you | have vouchsafed |
| they | have vouchsafed |
Past
| I | vouchsafed |
| you | vouchsafed |
| he;she;it | vouchsafed |
| we | vouchsafed |
| you | vouchsafed |
| they | vouchsafed |
Pluperfect
| I | had vouchsafed |
| you | had vouchsafed |
| he;she;it | had vouchsafed |
| we | had vouchsafed |
| you | had vouchsafed |
| they | had vouchsafed |
Future
| I | will vouchsafe |
| you | will vouchsafe |
| he;she;it | will vouchsafe |
| we | will vouchsafe |
| you | will vouchsafe |
| they | will vouchsafe |
Future Perfect
| I | will have vouchsafed |
| you | will have vouchsafed |
| he;she;it | will have vouchsafed |
| we | will have vouchsafed |
| you | will have vouchsafed |
| they | will have vouchsafed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | vouchsafe |
| you | vouchsafe |
| he;she;it | vouchsafe |
| we | vouchsafe |
| you | vouchsafe |
| they | vouchsafe |
Perfect
| I | have vouchsafed |
| you | have vouchsafed |
| he;she;it | have vouchsafed |
| we | have vouchsafed |
| you | have vouchsafed |
| they | have vouchsafed |
Imperfect
| I | vouchsafed |
| you | vouchsafed |
| he;she;it | vouchsafed |
| we | vouchsafed |
| you | vouchsafed |
| they | vouchsafed |
Pluperfect
| I | had vouchsafed |
| you | had vouchsafed |
| he;she;it | had vouchsafed |
| we | had vouchsafed |
| you | had vouchsafed |
| they | had vouchsafed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would vouchsafe |
| you | would vouchsafe |
| he;she;it | would vouchsafe |
| we | would vouchsafe |
| you | would vouchsafe |
| they | would vouchsafe |
Perfect
| I | would have vouchsafed |
| you | would have vouchsafed |
| he;she;it | would have vouchsafed |
| we | would have vouchsafed |
| you | would have vouchsafed |
| they | would have vouchsafed |
Imperative
| you | vouchsafe |
| we | Let's vouchsafe |
| you | vouchsafe |
Verbs conjugated like 'vouchsafe'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'vouchsafe'
voutsafe,
bouche,
chafe,
douche,
enchafe,
louche,
outhale,
outsave,
southsay,
vocate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1303, vouchen safe "to vouch as safe" (see vouch and safe).
2. From vouch + safe, written as two words in Middle English and early Modern English.
Sample Sentences
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If Brutus will vouchſafe that Antony / May ſafely come to him ... [1599?, William Shakespeare, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, Julius Caesar, Act III, scene i, page 119:]
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Wilt thou, whoſe will is large and ſpacious, / Not once vouchſafe to hide my will in thine? [1609, William Shakespeare, Shake-speares sonnets: Neuer before Imprinted, London: G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe], and are to be solde by William Aspley, →OCLC, sonnet 135:]
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Needless to say, we have been vouchsafed no idea of what this might cost the innocent victims, the ratepayers. [1964 July, “The mythology of monorails”, in Modern Railways, page 57:]
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The fundamentalist is concerned with what accords with some ultimate, sacred truth, as vouchsafed to an ancestral scribe or prophet, and not with traditions of human errancy. [2018, Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity—Creed, Country, Color, Class, Culture, New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 64:]
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Nancy's lips parted abruptly, as if there were angry words all ready to come; but her eyes, resting on Pollyanna's jubilantly trustful face, saw something that prevented the words being spoken.
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"Humph!" she vouchsafed. Then, showing her old-time interest, she went on: "But, say, it is queer, his speakin' to you, honestly, Miss Pollyanna. He don't speak ter no one; and he lives all alone in a great big lovely house all full of jest grand things, they say. Some says he's crazy, and some jest cross; and some says he's got a skeleton in his closet." [1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:]
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She vouchsafed to me that she regretted ever marrying him.
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What have the gods told you?
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What have you foreseen?
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The gods have vouchsafed me nothing, told me nothing.
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His predictions were at first to be guided by direct intimations vouchsafed to him by the god; […] [1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 129:]