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forsooth

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for·sooth  (fôr-sth, fr-)
adv.
In truth; indeed.
[Middle English forsoth, from Old English forsth : for, for; see for + sth, truth; see sooth.]
forsooth
Adverb
Old-fashioned in truth or indeed [Old English forsōth]
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Adv.1.forsooth - an archaic word originally meaning `in truth' but now usually used to express disbelief


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491 d: And the author of "The Astronomy", which is attributed forsooth to Hesiod, always calls them (the Pleiades) Peleiades: `but mortals call them Peleiades'; and again, `the stormy Peleiades go down'; and again, `then the Peleiades hide away.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
I am not to see, forsooth, that no man does me an injury, or breaks into my home--I am not to take care that all shall go well with me, or that I have clothes to wear, or that my shoes do not require mending, or that I be given work to do, or that I possess sufficient meat and drink?
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
"Yea, forsooth," replied the bond-servant, staring with wide-open eyes at the scarlet letter, which, being a new-comer in the country, he had never before seen.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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