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▪ I. † ˈsoothly, a. Obs. rare.
[f. sooth a. + -ly1.]
Soothful, truthful; true, real, etc.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxviii. §5 Ne þincð me næfre nanwuht swa soðlic swa me þincað þine spell. a1300Cursor M. 13443 Bot iohn was sothlist in saus. a1400Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xlv. 2 Soþeli sawes I wol ȝou telle Of gentyl Ihesu. 1777Mickle Syr Martyn i. xlvi, Dear was the kindlie love which Kathrin bore This crooked Ronion, for in soothly guise She was her genius and her counsellor.
▪ II. soothly, adv. (and conj.) Now arch.|ˈsuːθlɪ|
[f. sooth a. + -ly2.]
1. In or with sooth or truth; truly, verily; as a matter of fact; assuredly, certainly, really; indeed.
Freq. in OE. and ME.; from c 1450 to c 1600 chiefly Sc. Very rare in the 17th and 18th centuries.
αc825Vesp. Psalter lvii. 2 Ᵹif soðlice [L. vere]..rehtwisnisse spreocað. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xv. 39 Soðlice monn ðes sunu godes wæs. 971Blickl. Hom. 59 Swyþe soþlice we maᵹon ᵹeþencan þæt hit biþ deaþes ylding. c1175Lamb. Hom. 15 Soðliche me þunched..þet al þas wrake is icumen ouer alle þeode. c1200Ormin 6445 Þær wass sene þatt ȝho wass Soþlike Godess moderr. c1275Sinners Beware 175 in O.E. Misc., Soþliche betere heom were, Þat heo ibore nere. c1300Havelok 276 Soþlike, in a lite[l] þrawe, Al Engelond of him stod awe. 1340Ayenb. 74 Vor huo hier him demþ zoþliche, him ne worþ non hede to by uorlore. 1393in Collectanea Topogr. (1836) III. 256 We..were confeffes sotheliche in dede sesyd in the Manere of Slaptone. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. lxxvi. (1869) 45 Soothliche litel thei wolden preysen my seyinge. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 14 Ne soothlich it is easie for to read, Where now on earth, or how he may be found.
βa1300Cursor M. 2552 Our lauerd steuen Sothli till him spak in sueuen. c1384Chaucer H. Fame 364 She wiste sothely he Was forthe vnto his shippes agoon. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 27 Sothely it es noȝt likly þat þai schold be graues. c1449Pecock Repr. i. xi. 53 Sotheli if eny man vnknowith, he schal be vnknowun. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge 177 Secular prestes expulsed sothely were From diuers monasteries. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. x. 8 For soothly he was one of matchlesse might. 1599Broughton's Let. vi. 20 And soothly so you meant. 1721Ramsay To R.H.B. iii, It soothly shaws them they can spare A rowth to spend. 1826Hood Irish Schoolm. xxvii, So soothly kind is Erin to her own! 1850Blackie æschylus II. 186 Soothly a worthy deed, a pleasant tale For future years to tell! 1881Swinburne Mary Stuart iv. iii, I would know soothly if your mind be changed.
γ1375Barbour Bruce vi. 32 Quhen the Gallowais vist suthly, That he wes with a few menȝhe. a1400–50Alexander 1962 Suthely þou knawes, And wete þou wele [etc.]. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 877 Yhe may nocht wyn ws suthlie, thocht ye bid. c1550Rolland Crt. Venus Prol. 13 The thrid clepit is Colerike suithlie. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 105 Quhilk office suthlie can na maner of vayis appertein to wemen.
b. With say, tell, etc.
a1000Elene 317 (Gr.), Weras..þa me soðlice secgan cunnon. a1225Ancr. R. 108 Leorne hit ᵹeorne of him þet tu hit kunne, ant muwe soðliche siggen. c1275Lay. 26210 Ne may no man mid mouþe soþliche segge of haluendeal þan folke. 13..Cursor M. 2398 (Gött.), I can noght say þe sothlier. c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 6175 Suthly I say yhou, swa yhe wroght. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 341 Whan that oon was deed, sothly to telle, His felawe wente and sought him down in helle. 1426Audelay Poems 19 Thus sayth Marke sothely. c1480Henryson Reas. Death & Man 18 Thay call me deid, Suthly I the declair. 1564A. Bacon tr. Jewel's Apol. v. i. §3 Soothely to saie, no man..woulde thinke the Jewes lawes..to be newe. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 46 King: mi faith I plight heere, to relate thee veritye soothlye. 1619H. Hutton Follie's Anat. (Percy Soc.) 3 Of this same point I cannot soothly say. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1673) 48 He was fain..to crave aid of his Equivocating Sophistry, and soothly to tell them, I have seen your face as the face of God. 1805Scott Last Minstr. ii. i, Then..home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair! 1871Rossetti Poems, Love's Nocturn viii, Master, is it soothly said That [etc.]?
†2. Used to render L. autem, enim, ergo, etc. Obs.
c825Vesp. Psalter ii. 6 Ic soðlice ᵹeseted..eam cyning. c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. i. 19 Ioseph soþlice hire wer..ne walde [etc.]. a1050Liber Scintill. (1889) 2 Þænne soþlice [L. tunc enim] mann fulfremed ys. a1300E.E. Psalter xxxvi. 35 Lauerd soth-like noght lete sal he Him in his hende to be. 1382Wyclif Matt. xii. 15 Sothely Jhesus witynge, wente awey thennes. c1460Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 89 To þe which sothly entente þe forsaide Executours stryffe, saying [etc.]. |