SOOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sooth mean? 

• SOOTH (noun)
  The noun SOOTH has 1 sense:

1. truth or reality

  Familiarity information: SOOTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Truth or reality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

in sooth

Hypernyms ("sooth" is a kind of...):

truthfulness (the quality of being truthful)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

 Context examples 

“In sooth, yes,” he answered; “I had forgot that she is about to lose her father.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dill seed oil is believed to sooth the nerves and is also used for digestive issues.

(Dill Seed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Elinor paid her every quiet and unobtrusive attention in her power; and she would have tried to sooth and tranquilize her still more, had not Marianne entreated her, with all the eagerness of the most nervous irritability, not to speak to her for the world.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Indeed, my fair sir, you speak sooth,” quoth he with the club, while the other seated himself once more by the wayside.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet, sooth to say, there were times when he had to ask himself whether it was not the Lady Maude who was gaining sway and influence over him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bertrand, my daughter's page, is hot to go; but in sooth he is over young for such rough work as may be before us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, in sooth, Castle Twynham is my home, and Sir Nigel Loring my father.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is sooth that I have received seven and twenty wounds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would come with you, but sooth to say I am stationed here and may not move.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By the three kings! there is sooth in what you say,” remarked the archer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)