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 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
Sooth to say, pug had more reason to express his dissatisfaction than was given him by the muse of Simpkinson; the other only barked for company.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy
Sooth to say, however, that the hitherto cold and impassive Hortensia was really in love, and that she had too much self-respect to make any conditions in the bestowal of her admiration.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various
Sooth to say, I had the sensation of boundless wealth.
From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton
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