Sooth Definition

so͝oth
adjective
True or real.
Webster's New World
Soothing; smooth.
Webster's New World
Keats.
With jellies soother than the creamy curd.
Wiktionary
noun
Truth; fact.
Webster's New World

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Origin of Sooth

  • Middle English sooth, from Old English sōþ (“truth", also "true, actual, real"), from Proto-Germanic *sanþaz (“truth; true"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sónts, *es-ont- (“being, existence, real, true"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-, *es- (“to be"). Akin to Old Saxon sōþ (“true"), Old High German sand (“true"), Old Norse sannr (“true"), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰 (sunja, “truth"), Old English sÄ“on (“to be"), Old English synn (“sin, guilt"; literally, "being the one guilty"). More at sin.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English sōth es- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sooth Sentence Examples

  • To speak sooth, now that he had love in earnest to make, his heart almost failed him.

  • For these have need of such comforts more than the knights, being in sooth weary meager wights and forlorn.

  • And, sooth to say, events had fallen out well for Richard.

  • Sooth, generally for women, A man might strive to make glass malleable, Ere he should make them fixed.

  • Carried by a rich sooth voice and upbeat guitar melodies.

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Words Starting With

SSOSOO

Words Ending With

HTHOTH

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