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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Truly; in or with truth.

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Examples

  • Shrive thee of thy customed consents, and of thine old sins, and so mayst thou come (by grace) to recover thy freedom again; and by the gracious freedom mayst thou soon come to, wisely for to know, and soothfastly for to feel by the proof, when it is thine own spirit that speaketh these evils, or it be these other evil spirits that speaketh them in thee.

    The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902

  • But in all this I saw soothfastly that we be not dead in the sight of God, nor He passeth never from us.

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

  • Full soothfastly wist the Son when it would be the Father's will and how long He should desire: that is to say, [He wist it] anent the Godhead: for He is the Wisdom of the Father; wherefore this question was shewed with understanding of the Manhood of Christ.

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

  • And He gave me to know soothfastly that it was He that shewed me all afore.

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

  • He that is meek soothfastly, or would be meek, can love his fellow-Christians: and none save he.

    The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901

  • Here may we see that our beseeching is not cause of God's goodness; and that shewed He soothfastly in all these sweet words when He saith: I am [the]

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

  • But it was not my meaning to make proof of anything that belongeth to the Faith: for I believed soothfastly that

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

  • And notwithstanding all this, I saw soothfastly that our Lord was never wroth, nor ever shall be.

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

  • Sir Gawain hearkened, and smiled at the black knight's speech, and spake soothfastly: "Now tell me what ye will of Sir Agloval that ye thus seek him, and thereafter will I tell ye that which I know."

    The Romance of Morien Jessie Laidlay Weston 1889

  • But, if I were to come, wad ye really and soothfastly pay me the siller? ''

    Rob Roy 1887

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