Pronounced: urn, noun
Notes: A nice simple word, but I didn’t know it
Yesterday’s word
The word vouchsafe means
- (transitive) to grant or give something as if as a favor
- (intransitive) to condescend
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1300s
Background / Comments
I think I was lead astray by the first part of our word (“vouch”), so I thought that our word meant something like “to swear to as true” or “to verify”. Our word comes to use from French, which came from the Latin word vocare (to call) combined with salvus (whole; intact).
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