insooth

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English

Etymology

From in +‎ sooth.

Adverb

insooth (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) truly
    • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      Insooth, good friend, your father might have kept
      This Calfe, bred from his Cow from all the world
    • 1822, The smile and the tear:
      Said a smile to a tear.
      ⁠On the cheek of my dear,
      That becam'd like the sun in spring weather
      Insooth, love Tear,
      ⁠It strange must appear,
      That we should be both here together.
    • 1922, Alfred Richard Allinson translating Pierre de Bourdeille, Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies, Volume I/First Discourse:
      I could render an account, but the tale would be over long,—having insooth surprised them there together, had the twain of them slain by men appointed thereto.

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