Sooth
[suːθ]
Definition
(superl.) True; faithful; trustworthy.
(superl.) Pleasing; delightful; sweet.
(a.) Truth; reality.
(a.) Augury; prognostication.
(a.) Blandishment; cajolery.
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Definition
n. truth reality.—adj. true: pleasing.—adv. indeed.—adj. Sooth′fast truthful honest faithful.—adv. Sooth′fastly.—n. Sooth′fastness.—advs. Sooth′ly Sooth′lich (Spens.) truly indeed.—v.i. Sooth′say to foretell to divine.—ns. Sooth′sayer one who divines esp. a pretender to the power; Sooth′saying divination prediction.
Typist: Martha
Examples
- Sooth to say, they cannot go away too fast, for even here my Lady Dedlock has been bored to death. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Ay sooth, we feel too strong in weal, to need Thee on that road; But woe being come, the soul is dumb, that crieth not on God. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I endeavoured therefore to sooth and soften her mind; and it was not until after many endeavours that I gave up the task as impracticable. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In the best French which he could muster, and which was in sooth of a very ungrammatical sort, Jos besought the hussar to tell his tale. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But these jests did not tell materially on the afternoon, or his suspense; and, sooth to say, they both lagged fearfully. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Sooth to say, Mr Rokesmith not only passed the window, but came into the counting-house. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Nay, thou hast hit me there, said the Knight; and, sooth to say, I have little time to jangle with thee. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But in sooth, Fate hath ruth, And this dream of youth May change from a dream to immutable truth. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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