insooth
English
Etymology
Adverb
insooth (not comparable)
- (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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- 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.
References
- “insooth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.