soothfastness
- a word derived from soothfast.
Example Sentences
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In no manner of feigning or flattering, but in soothfastness of good love and clean charity.
From The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Hodgson, Geraldine Emma
Thou gettest fable none y-told for me, For Paul, that writeth unto Timothy, Reproveth them that *weive soothfastness,* *forsake truth* And telle fables, and such wretchedness.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
O my brother, womankind was created for mankind, and mankind was created for womankind, and albe falsehood is an excuse, yet soothfastness is more saving and safe-guiding.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
He cried, "An ye would have pardon from Allah and me, you are bound to tell me the truth, for nothing shall save you from me but soothfastness."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
These things thou wouldest wete of me; but, soothly, I cannot tell thee for a surety the soothfastness of this matter; nevertheless somewhat, as me thinketh, I shall shew thee in a short word.
From The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 by Gardner, Edmund Garratt
