forsooth

IPA: fɔrsuθ

(archaic or poetic) Used as an intensifier, often ironic: indeed, really, truthfully.

Examples of "forsooth" in Sentences

Thou deem’st it Hell but here, forsooth, is Heaven,
So that there on her head sang the ring-sword forsooth
"Your city-mannerly word forsooth, use it not too often in any case."
Hear sentence forsooth, that is, the ratling of broken glasses, and the expounding of dreams?
Why must my name forsooth be given up to the Commander-in-Chief as that of the most guilty of the grumblers?
You pretend to carry despatches to a general who has been dead these ten months: you have an uncle who is an ambassador, and whose name forsooth you don't know.
But let him now dare _allude_ to Romanism -- he offends one-half of his congregation -- he is _preaching_ politics -- they will hear him no more; or forsooth, which is more common, they will withhold his support and starve him out!
"Attacked!" repeated Wolfe, -- "attacked!" and then suddenly sinking his voice into a sort of sneer, "why, since the event which this painting is designed to commemorate, I know not if we have ever had one solitary gleam of liberty break along the great chaos of jarring prejudice and barbarous law which we term forsooth a glorious constitution.