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Definition of Soothly
1. adv. In truth; truly; really; verily.
Definition of Soothly
1. Adverb. (archaic) Truly, verily ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soothly
1. in truth [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soothly
Literary usage of Soothly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"Him that was, if I shall not feign, Flower of Poets, throughout of all Britain,
40 Which soothly had moost of excellence In ..."
2. Thunor the Thunderer: Carved on a Scandinavian Font of about the Year 1000 by George Stephens (1878)
"soothly was given them life with gloom louring, (their lea ever holy, fiends thro
false-tung'd, lastly y-barred winters full many) till, the worthy, ..."
3. Poets' Corner: A Manual for Students in English Poetry, with Biographical by John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew (1868)
"... And home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! LOCHINVAR.
LADY HERON'S SONG. O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west: Through ..."
4. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1903)
"... for soothly, that oon ne may 515 nat been with-oute that other. ... For soothly,
nature ... for soothly, he that is proude or envious is lightly ..."
5. Principles of English Etymology by Walter William Skeat (1892)
"In very literal modern English, the passage runs thus:— ' soothly, out went * the
... soothly, some fell on thorns, and the thorns waxed, and choked them. ..."
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