sooth
Americannoun
adjective
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true or real
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smooth
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Origin of sooth
before 900; Middle English; Old English sōth; cognate with Old Saxon sōth, Old Norse sannr, Gothic sunjis true, Sanskrit sat, sant true, real; akin to is
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When she meets a Southern aristocrat named Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, she promptly marries him, goes "Sooth," and teaches the hunting gentry a thing or two by bringing the fox back alive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sooth, not greatly needful, only as your sallet to your great feast, to entertain a little more time, and to abridge the not received custom of music in our theatre.”
From Shakespeare in the Theatre by Poel, William
"Sooth thou hast intill Paris lear'd A worthless drift to spell,50 And ay, whatever thou hast to say, A rogue's tale thou must tell."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
If she found the lover ever, With his red-roan steed of steeds, Sooth I know not; but I know She could never show him—never, That swan's nest among the reeds.
From School Reading by Grades Sixth Year by Baldwin, James
Sooth to speak, I cannot say much for the juvenile representations at Bowhill and in the library at Dalkeith.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
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