Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Truthful; honest.
- adjective True; real.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Truthful; veracious; honest.
- True; veritable; worthy of belief.
- Veritable; certain; real.
- Faithful; loyal; steadfast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Archaic Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful.
- adverb Archaic Soothly; really; in fact.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
actual - adjective
real - adjective based on the truth, true
- adjective truthful, faithful; honest, veracious
- adverb actually; truthfully
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Right soothfast is the saw, ‘Penury maketh strangerhood at home and money maketh a home in strangerhood’; and indeed the poet speaks truth when he saith,
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"Ay, because lies have been meat and drink to her, till she cannot speak a soothfast word nor know an honest man when she sees him."
Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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As for the three jewels whereof he told thy father when asking his aid, there was not one soothfast word in that matter, for they were with Sophia, his daughter; and my father took them from her, when he got possession of her and of her maidens, and gave them to me in free gift, and they are now with me.
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And Truth is best asylum for the man of soothfast soul:
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Whereupon the Wazir said to him, Know, O my son, that truth hath shown it soothfast and the concealed hath been revealed!
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Whenas thou art wroth, curb thy wrath; when thou art afflicted, be patient; when thou speakest be soothfast; when thou promisest, perform; when thou judgest, do justice; when thou hast power, be merciful; deal generously by thy governors and lieutenants, forgive thy foes; be lavish of good offices to thine adversary, and stay thy mischief from him.
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If his Faith be soothfast and his Lord Omnipotent, He will assuredly bless each of us with a child male or female, and if the thing thus fall out, we will enter his faith and worship his Lord; else will we take patience and devise us another device.
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But gang thy way, honest Geordie; thou art a good plain man, but nane of the seven sages of Greece; gang thy way, and mind the soothfast word which you spoke, small time syne, that there is one in this land that comes near to Solomon, King of Israel, in all his gifts, except in his love to strange women, forby the daughter of
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Take to thy heart this one, this soothfast word — Of wantonness impiety is sire;
The Eumenides 2002
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Take to thy heart this one, this soothfast word — Of wantonness impiety is sire;
The Eumenides 2002
qms commented on the word soothfast
How long should the shadow of youth last
And when shed the shame of uncouth past?
From miscreant young
There often have sprung
Grown men who are noble and soothfast.
June 29, 2016