soothly


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sooth

 (so͞oth) Archaic
adj.
1. Real; true.
2. Soft; smooth.
n.
Truth; reality.

[Middle English, from Old English sōth; see es- in Indo-European roots.]

sooth′ly adv.
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And the second cause is this, that soothly me seemeth better to write unto a child twice a good sentence than he forget it once.
Soothly, Pakistani political scientists would have hard time in selling it as democracy to the nations of the world.
Preceded by so greet an emprise for to undertake to doan (X.691), which puns "Greek" and emphasizes "unto" as to un and to oon, and entered by the pairs wanhope (692) and fals hope (719) followed by the mercy of God (692) and turne to God (718), the structure holds seven (not "deadly," but "lively") synnes that we have emphasized by an underline: the synne that (693) and the synne that (718); This horrible synne is (695) and is lyk (714); alle synnes tha- (696) and that is the yate of alle (713); this synne (696) and that is (713); Soothly he that (695) and thise two synnes as seith (711); a synful man that (700) and seith Salomon (709); and thow comest into thy (702) and three instances of come: that first cometh (708), this synne comth (706), and Thanne cometh (705).
Swiveller called a "modest quencher"; That home-returning, I may "soothly say," "Fate cannot touch me: I have dined to-day."
[...] and when I saw thee, that thou wouldst do off thy raiment to bathe thee, though soothly I longed to lie hidden there, I feared thee, lest thou shouldst be angry with me if I were to see thee unclad; so I came away; yet I went not far, for I was above all things yearning to see thee; and sooth it is, that hadst thou not crossed the water, I should presently have crossed it myself to seek thee, wert thou Goddess, or wood-wife, or whatever might have come of it.