forsooth

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Hear sentence forsooth, that is, the ratling of broken glasses, and the expounding of dreams?

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  1. adverb In truth; indeed.

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  • This is common sense; and yet in religious matters forsooth, the private judgment of an ignorant and illiterate individual must be permitted to overrule the decision of the collective wisdom of learned theologians. —  Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
  • Thou askest, forsooth, a sure proof that thou mayst believe thyself sprung from my blood? —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
  • But, forsooth, the last day {of life} must always be awaited by man, and no one ought to be pronounced happy before his death,[16] and his last obsequies. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
  • Blind old woman, forsooth--undutiful child Vanslyperken, in spite of his mother's indignation, could not prevent his eyes from following the tail of his dog, as it sailed through the ambient air surrounding the half-way houses, and was glad to observe it landed among some cabbage-leaves thrown into the road, without attracting notice. —  Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend
  • Was it, forsooth, a greater thing to have conquered the Britons surrounded by the ocean, and to have steered his victorious ships along the seven-mouthed streams of the Nile that bears the papyrus, and to have added to the people of Quirinus the rebellious Numidians[83] and the Cinyphian Juba, and Pontus[84] proud of the fame of Mithridates, and to have deserved many a triumph, {and} to have enjoyed some, than it was to have been the father of a personage so great, under whose tutelage over the world, you, ye Gods above, have shewn excessive care for the human race? —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
 

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  1. Middle English forsoth, from Old English forsōth : for, for; see for + sōth, truth; see sooth.

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  1. from Middle English forsoothe, forsothe, for sothe, i.e., for truth, in truth: see for and sooth, n.
 

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