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Soothfast

adj, adv

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Actual; real. archaic

    "So she brought him the China bowl saying in herself, “I shall know what to do when I find out if the words of my child concerning these jewels be soothfast or not”; […]"

  2. 2
    Based on the truth, true; faithful; honest, veracious archaic

    "Why do not you […] bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience?"

Adverb
  1. 1
    Actually; truthfully. obsolete

    "I care not if the pomps you show / Be what they soothfast appear, / Or if yon realms in sunset glow / Be bubbles of the atmosphere."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English sothfast, from Old English sōþfæst (“true, trustworthy”), from Proto-West Germanic *sanþafast. Equivalent to sooth + fast.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sothfast, from Old English sōþfæst (“true, trustworthy”), from Proto-West Germanic *sanþafast. Equivalent to sooth + fast.

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