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Forsooth

//fɔɹˈsuθ// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    Used as an intensifier, often ironic: indeed, really, truthfully. archaic, not-comparable, poetic

    "A fit man, forsooth, to governe a realme!"

Adverb
  1. 1
    an archaic word originally meaning ‘in truth’ but now usually used to express disbelief wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English forsothe, forsoþe, for sothe, from Old English for sōþ (“truly, for certain, forsooth”), equivalent to for (“for, by”) + sooth (“truth”).

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