Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or property of being true.
- noun Truthfulness; faithfulness; righteousness.
- noun Reality; earnest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Truth; reality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
truth ;reality
Etymologies
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Examples
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For as mother of wisdom she receiveth all that cometh out of every country of the world, and helpeth them in all that they need, and ruleth all peaceably, and as a servant of soothness, she sheweth herself detty to wise men and unwise.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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Our Lord God is an endless being without changing, almighty without failing, sovereign wisdom, light, soothness without error or darkness; sovereign goodness, love, peace, and sweetness.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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Then are we greatly bound to God [338] [for] that He willeth in this living to shew us this high soothness.
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Beholding of our Lord God is the highest soothness.
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