Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Middle English forms of soothly, soothness, soothsaw.
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Examples
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And sothly that nombre is more that hath {e} more figures, So that the last be signyficatife {s}: And yf ther ben as many in that one as in that other, me most deme it by the last, other by the next last.
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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Also in this yere the kyng was defraunded of his lond in Gascoigne in this manner, sothly: the kyng hadde yoven the forseyd lond of Gascoyne to the kynges suster of
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[253] "as sothly as sin is onclene as sothly is it onkinde."
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FN#563] "Now sothly," quod that othir, "and in the same maner hit happid vith me.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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