Vouchsafe

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]

1: ὁμολογέω (Strong'S #3670 — Verb — homologeo — hom-ol-og-eh'-o )

"to agree," is found in the best texts in  Acts 7:17 , and rendered "vouchsafed," Rv, with reference to God's promise to Abraham; some mss. have omosen, "swore" (omnumi, "to swear"), as in Av. See Confess , Profess , Promise , Thanks , B, Note.

King James Dictionary [2]

Vouchsafe, vouch and safe to vouch or answer for safety.

1. To permit to be done without danger. 2. To condescend to grant.

Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?

It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathen the means of salvation.

Vouchsafe, To condescend to deign to yield.

Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold What powr the charms of

beauty had of old.

Webster's Dictionary [3]

(1): ( v. t.) To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.

(2): ( v. t.) To receive or accept in condescension.

(3): ( v. i.) To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.

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