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- noun obsolete A
true saying ;truth .
Etymologies
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From Middle English sothesawe, sothsaȝe, equivalent to sooth + saw (“a saying”). Cognate with Icelandic sannsaga ("truth-telling, soothsaying"). Compare also Middle English sothsawel, sothsaȝel ("truth-telling", a).
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Thus Wiclif employed ‘soothsaw’, where we now use proverb;
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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