Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of sweet.
  • Middle English forms of subtle, subtlety.
  • noun A Middle English form of soot.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Sweet.

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Examples

  • The sote accepts all the major credit cards as payment and shipping is arranged in a very little time.

    CriticalTool.com 2009

  • The sote accepts all the major credit cards as payment and shipping is arranged in a very little time.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Now if i buy it at the sote then they know that I won it right, why not allow me to also view this for free digitally?

    Walmart Bundles Digital Downloads With Physical DVDs Natali Del Conte 2005

  • How flat and tame "sweet April showers," in comparison with "April with his shourès sote."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • (_Ho-dé-no-sote_) of the Iroquois, who called themselves "the people of the long house" (_Ho-dé-no-sau-nee_), because they dwelt in a line of villages of "long houses," reaching from the Genesee to the Mohawk, where the eastern door looked toward the Hudson and Lake Champlain.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • QUOTATION: Whanne that April with his shoures sote

    Quotations 1919

  • Among the opposition leaders were Too-hul-hul-sote, White Bird, and

    Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains Charles Alexander Eastman 1898

  • Neither did Chaucer; the two words, _sote_ and _rote_, were in his days perfect rhymes.

    China and the Chinese Herbert Allen Giles 1890

  • Christ is not only the head of the church, but he is its Saviour, kai autos esti sote ` r tou so'matos.

    A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

  • The "Long House" (Ho-de'-no-sote) was made the symbol of the confederacy, and they styled themselves the "People of the Long House"

    Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

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