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/ˌvaʊt͡ʃˈseɪf/ · verb
(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 ...
Wilt thou, whoſe will is large and ſpacious, / Not once vouchſafe to hide my will in thine?
Needless to say, we have been vouchsafed no idea of what this might cost the innocent victims, the ratepayers.
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.
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 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."
She vouchsafed to me that she regretted ever marrying him.
His predictions were at first to be guided by direct intimations vouchsafed to him by the god; […]
Use vouchsafe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Vouchsafe means (transitive) To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge..
Common synonyms include deign, vouch.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If Brutus will vouchſafe that Antony / May ſafely come to him ...
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