Vouch*safe", v. i. To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or
stoop. Chaucer.
Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.
Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold What power the charms of
beauty had of old.
Dryden.
Vouch*safe"ment (?), n. The act of vouchsafing, or that which is
vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. Glanvill.
||Vous`soir" (?), n. [F., akin to voûte an arch, a vault.] (Arch.) One
||of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
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Vow (?), n. [OE. vou, OF. vou, veu, vo, vu, F. v&?;u, from L. votum,
from vovere, to vow. Cf. Avow, Devout, Vote.]
1. A solemn promise made to God, or to some deity; an act by which one
consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or
in part, for a longer or shorter time, to some act, service, or
condition; a devotion of one's possessions; as, a baptismal vow; a vow
of poverty. "Nothing . . . that may . . . stain my vow of Nazarite."
Milton.