sooth
IPA: suθ
noun
- (archaic) Truth.
- (obsolete) Augury; prognostication.
- (obsolete) Blandishment; cajolery.
- (obsolete) Reality; fact.
verb
- Obsolete form of soothe. [(transitive) To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.]
adjective
- (archaic) True.
- (obsolete) Pleasing; delightful; sweet.
adverb
- (archaic) In truth; indeed.
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Examples of "sooth" in Sentences
- He always tells sooth to people.
- I just like the soothing colour.
- The prisoner told a police the sooth.
- Speak to the patient with a soothing voice.
- The policy succeeded to soothe the afflicted.
- How do you distinguish if it is a sooth or not
- It was also said to soothe and calm the bowels.
- Diaparene Ointment will soothe and dry the wrinkle.
- The Ethiopian runner hath brought word to me in sooth
- The Sage hath praised. 314 A fool, in sooth, grows wise
- Emollients are substances that soften and soothe the skin.
- A noble king in sooth, to suffer thyself to be so imposed on!
- It does not matter whether or not he was actually saying the sooth.
- For she in sooth had bidden me to that which might not be, — ‘An if thou swive me not forthright, as one should swive his wife,
- Just come into my warm embrace, rest your tired and bruised head on my shoulder while I sooth your pain and make those nasty policy-weecy people go away forever.
- She said, ‘By Allah, O good damsel, in sooth death were easier to me than what hath betided me; for it seemed as though I should be slain and no power could save me.
- Rejoined she, Speak and look thou speak soothly; for sooth is the ark of safety, and beware of lying, for it dishonoureth the liar and God-gifted is he who said: — ‘Ware that truth thou speak, albe sooth when said
- So he went and stood before her, and she said: "Though as yet thou hast had no welcome here, and no honour, it hath not entered into thine heart to flee from us; and to say sooth, that is well for thee, for flee away from our hand thou mightest not, nor mightest thou depart without our furtherance.
- A shrine where saints and scholars met And held aloft the torch of truth Lies smouldering 'neath fair Brabant's skies, A ruined heapwar's prize in sooth 1 The Pilates of Teutonic blood That fired the brand and flung the bomb Now wash their hands of evil deed, While all the world stands ghast and dumb.
- Sooth of byrdes) A kind of sooth saying vsed in elder tymes, which they gathered by the flying of byrds; First (as is sayd) niuented [invented] by the Thuscanes and from them deriued to the Romanes, who (as is sayd in Liuie) were so supersticiously rooted in the same, that they agreed that euery Noble man should put his sonne to the Thuscanes, by them to be brought vp in that knowledge.