Forsooth, if this were in a play, I'd want my tuppence back!
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Forsooth
/fɔɹˈsuθ/
Synonyms for "forsooth" (46 found)
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decisivelydefinitelydistinctlyfactuallyfor a certaintyfor a factfor certainfor surehistoricallyin factin realityin truth
Interjection(1 words)
in truth
Related words (23)
in very soothindeedindeedymost assuredlymost certainlynothing else butof a truthof coursepositivelyreallyreally-trulysurelyto a certaintytrulyundoubtedlyunequivocallyunmistakablyverilyveritablywith truth
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10 entriesElizabethan EnglishShakespearean expressionarchaic interjectionarchaic usagedramatic rhetorichistorical exclamationhistorical proseliterary exclamationold Englishperiod drama
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Scarce out of sight of Sicily, they set / their sails to sea, and merrily ploughed the main, / with brazen beaks, when Juno, harbouring yet / within her breast the ever-ranking pain, / mused thus: "Must I then from the work refrain, / nor keep this Trojan from the Latin throne, / baffled, forsooth, because the Fates constrain?"
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A fit man, forsooth, to governe a realme!
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[F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...]
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