Be what he asks of you,—his comforter, his soother; be more,—his pride and his joy.
He got through a vast amount of work, only soother of the nerves he knew.
I am the soother, the joy, the life, the happiness inexhaustible!
The location of the seat of government was chosen as the soother.
If Ryanne was without the soother, so much the worse for him.
There was a want of some soother of the excitement produced.
We are now to observe him reft of every admirer, every soother, every friend.
Time is a soother of sorrows, a healer of rancours, however legitimate.
There is no soother so effectual as the soft voice of the Gospel.
My Bible was my only companion—my soother and support; for I found no threat there but against the wicked.
Old English soð "truth, justice, righteousness, rectitude; reality, certainty," noun use of soð (adj.) "true, genuine, real; just, righteous," originally *sonð-, from Proto-Germanic *santhaz (cf. Old Norse sannr, Old Saxon soth, Old High German sand "true," Gothic sunja "truth").
The group is related to Old English synn "sin" and Latin sontis "guilty" (truth is related to guilt via "being the one;" see sin (v.)), from PIE *es-ont- "being, existence," thus "real, true," from present participle of root *es-, the s-form of the verb "to be" (see be), preserved in Latin sunt "they are" and German sind. Archaic in English, it is the root of modern words for "true" in Swedish (sann) and Danish (sand). In common use until mid-17c., then obsolete until revived as an archaism early 19c. by Scott, etc. Used for Latin pro- in translating compounds into Old English, e.g. soðtacen "prodigy," soðfylgan "prosequi."
Old English soðian "show to be true," from soð "true" (see sooth). Sense of "quiet, comfort, mollify" is first recorded 1690s, via notion of "to assuage one by asserting that what he says is true" (i.e. to be a yes-man), a sense attested from 1560s (and cf. Old English gesoð "a parasite, flatterer"). Meaning "reduce the intensity" (of a pain, etc.) is from 1711. Related: Soothed; soothing.
