sooth

noun

1. (archaic, uncountable)Truth.

   “In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.”

   “[…] "O Eginhard, disclose The meaning and the mystery of the rose"; And trembling he made answer: "In good sooth, Its mystery is love, its meaning youth!"”

2. (obsolete, uncountable)Augury; prognostication.

   “The sooth of birds, by beating of their wings.”

3. (obsolete, uncountable)Blandishment; cajolery.
4. (obsolete, uncountable)Reality; fact.
5. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of saunth (“type of chutney”).

adj

1. (archaic)True.
2. (obsolete)Pleasing; delightful; sweet.

   “The soothest shepherd that e'er pip'd on plains”

   “With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; […]”

adv

1. (archaic, not-comparable)In truth; indeed.

   “That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare.”

verb

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of soothe.

   “To be ſhort, a wretched and curſed generation they be; hypocrites, pretending friendſhip, but they can not skill of plaine dealing and franke ſpeech. Rich men they claw, ſooth up and flatter: the poore they contemne and deſpiſe.”

   “Hereupon it is, that these sportulary preachers are fain to sooth up their many masters […]”

   “Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt, / To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

   “Not ballad-ſinger plac’d above the croud, / Sings with a note ſo ſhrilling ſweet and loud, / Nor pariſh clerk who calls the pſalm ſo clear, / Like Bowzybeus ſooths th’ attentive ear.”

   ““Wi’ hat in hand,” sweet lass, quo I, / “Wer't in my power to sooth thy sigh, / My hame-bor’d whistle I wad try, / An’ gie’t a screed, / Atween whar Tiviot murmurs by, / An’ bonny Tweed.””