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† ˈsoothsaw Obs.
Also sooth saw. Forms: 1 soðsaᵹu, -saᵹe, 2 soð-, 3 soþ-, sothsaȝe, 4 soþsagh, 5 sothesaugh; 3–4 soþ-, 4 soth-, 4–5 sothesawe, 6 sothsaw; 4 sooþ-, 5 soothsawe, 6 -saw.
[OE. sóðsaᵹu: see sooth a. and saw n.2 In later use sometimes not a comb., but a simple collocation of adj. and n.]
1. The or an act of speaking the truth; (one's) truthfulness, truth.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt., Int. 7/2 Soðspell vel soðsaᵹa [= historia]. a1023Wulfstan Hom. x. (1883) 74 On manna ᵹehwylces mode and muðe soðsaᵹu stande. c1380Wyclif Treat. Sel. Wks. III. 6 Aȝein hem þat in blindenes of malice pursuen me for my sooþsawe. c1400Rom. Rose 6125 Though that thou shuldist for thi sothe-sawe Ben al to-beten and to-drawe. c1440Gesta Rom. xlv. 175 (Harl. MS.), My felowe for his sothe sawe, hathe loste his lyf. c1483Caxton Epil. Chaucer's H. Fame d v, This noble man Gefferey Chaucer fynysshyd at the sayd conclusion of the metyng of lesyng and sothsawe.
2. A true saying, statement, or account; a truth.
αa1250Owl & Night. 1038 Hit was iseid in olde laȝe, An ȝet ilast þilke soþsaȝe [etc.]. a1300Cursor M. 8911 For þe loue o þis soth-sagh. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. xi. 16 Al þe soþ sawes þat Salamon seide euere. c1384Chaucer H. Fame 2089 A lesynge & a sad soth-sawe. c1430Wycliffite Bible Pref. Ep. ix, For it is an old sothsawe, to the auarouse man as wel lackith the good that he hath, as that he hath not.
βc1250Gen. & Ex. 14 Ut of latin ðis song is draȝen on engleis speche, on soðe saȝen. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2298 Sey me þe soþe sawe: How mykel louestou me wyþ wylle? c1384Chaucer H. Fame 676 Thou shalt here..moo tydynges, Bothe sothe sawes and leysinges. 1519Interl. Four Elem. (Percy Soc.) 17, I..gyve the absolucion For thy soth saws; stande up, Jackdaw! c1530Hickscorner (1905) 129, I came..to preach and teach of God's sooth saws Ayenst vice. |