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Definition of Sooth
1. Noun. Truth or reality. "In sooth"
Definition of Sooth
1. a.; also adv. True; faithful; trustworthy.
2. n. Truth; reality.
Definition of Sooth
1. Noun. (archaic) Truth. ¹
2. Adjective. (archaic) True. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sooth
1. true [n -S] - See also: true
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sooth
Literary usage of Sooth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... As though a hole him had I made a leech, And day by day he gan require and
seech A sooth of this, with all his full cure, ..."
2. The Medieval Popular Ballad (1914)
"... erotic lament, but an epical ballad whose story was told in the third person.
V. THIS I SAY TO YOU IN sooth Hitherto I have avoided ..."
3. The Medieval Popular Ballad by Edward Godfrey Cox (1914)
"V. THIS I SAY TO YOU IN sooth Hitherto I have avoided mentioning one form of /,
namely, that verse which we meet a hundred times : " This I say to you in ..."
4. ... The Medieval Popular Ballad by Edward Godfrey Cox (1914)
"V. THIS I SAY TO YOU IN sooth Hitherto I have avoided mentioning one form of /,
namely, that verse which we meet a hundred times : " This I say to you in ..."
5. The new and complete dictionary of the English languageby John Ash by John Ash (1795)
"sooth'er («il.. i5«/>. of (both) sooth in a ... Milton. soothing (i.ffam t'upart.)
The a£l of appealing. sooth' ..."
6. Table Talk: And Other Poems by William Cowper (1817)
"... He sooth'd with gifts, and greeted/with a smile, The simple native of the new
found isle; ... sooth ..."
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