forsooth

[ fawr-sooth ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

, Archaic.

forsooth

/ fəˈsuːθ /

before 900; Middle English forsothe, Old English forsōth. See for, sooth

Old English forsōth

If a man has hired an ox or sheep and a lion has killed it in the open field, that loss is for its owner forsooth.

The dates that are over, which are in the plantation, the owner of the plantation shall take forsooth.

Music mingled with the sound of merry voices, and forsooth now and again we heard the faint popping of corks along Officers' Row.

As if, forsooth, the existence of our nationality began and ended in Pretoria!

So I am to be ruind, because, forsooth, you must be in Love!

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