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Definition of "sooth" [sooth]
- Real; true. (adjective)
- Soft; smooth. (adjective)
- Truth; reality. (noun)
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Use "sooth" in a sentence
- "A shrine where saints and scholars met And held aloft the torch of truth Lies smouldering 'neath fair Brabant's skies, A ruined heapwar's prize in sooth 1 The Pilates of Teutonic blood That fired the brand and flung the bomb Now wash their hands of evil deed, While all the world stands ghast and dumb."
- "The Ethiopian runner hath brought word to me in sooth"
- "The Sage hath praised. 314 A fool, in sooth, grows wise"
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