soothfast
Americanadjective
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based on the truth; true.
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truthful; veracious.
adjective
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truthful
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loyal; true
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of soothfast
before 900; Middle English sothfast, Old English sōthfæst. See sooth, fast 1
Example Sentences
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"Min Hakk" has occurred page 183, where the text, quoted in the note, may perhaps be translated: "Of a truth, is this saying soothfast?"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Stoop not then to poor excuse; Turn on the accuser roundly; say, 'Here am I, here will I abide Forever to myself soothfast; Go thou, sweet Heaven, or at thy pleasure stay!'
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
After a while he recovered and asked the Khwajah, "Say me, be these words of thine soothfast or false?"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Then he ends this preface with a prayer that God will give him grace, "so that I say naught but soothfast thing."
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
But Zayn al-Asnam replied, "O mother mine, verily this Shaykh is soothfast and no liar: for the first time he but tried me and now he proposeth to perform his promise."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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