insooth

English

Etymology

From in +‎ sooth.

Adverb

insooth (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) truly
   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Insooth, good friend, your father might have kept
     This Calfe, bred from his Cow from all the world

   • 1822, The smile and the tear:

     Said a smile to a tear.
     ⁠On the cheek of my dear,
     That becam'd like the sun in spring weather
     ⁠Insooth, love Tear,
     ⁠It strange must appear,
     That we should be both here together.

   • 1922, Alfred Richard Allinson translating Pierre de Bourdeille, Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies, Volume I/First Discourse:

     I could render an account, but the tale would be over long,—having insooth surprised them there together, had the twain of them slain by men appointed thereto.

References

• “insooth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• inshoot, shootin'