vouchsafes

Verb

vouchsafe (third-person singular simple present vouchsafes, present participle vouchsafing, simple past and past participle vouchsafed)

1. (transitive) To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
   • 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...

   Synonyms:

   vouch

2. (intransitive) To receive or accept in condescension.
   • 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.
     "Humph!" she vouchsafed. Then, showing her old-time interest, she went on: "But, say, it is queer, his...1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC
3. (transitive) To disclose or divulge.
   • She vouchsafed to me that she regretted ever marrying him.