sooth
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The truth or what is real
- noun
- /suːθ/
- Archaic
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verdad
- Ablative vero might be how we came by the English expression "in sooth"—"in truth"—which gets close to verily—don’t you think?
Examples
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Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do, in such disdainful manner me to woo.
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Here is a point, in sooth, that seems to need inquiry and a putting to the test:
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He made free with his share, yet kept himself a mystery, in sooth.
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Yesterdays Yesterdays Days I knew as happy sweet Sequestered days Olden days Golden days Days of mad romance And love Then gay youth was mine And truth was mine Joyous free and flaming life Them-sooth was mine
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In sooth, you 'pa not so.
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Ah, me! In sooth, he was a shameless wight.
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Etymology
Sooth comes from an old English word soþ meaning 'truth', and you can see the same root in soothsayer ('truth-sayer'). That's why sooth still means 'truth' in poetic or old-fashioned phrases like 'in sooth'.