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Definition of Soothfast
1. a. Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful.
2. adv. Soothly; really; in fact.
Definition of Soothfast
1. Adjective. actual ¹
2. Adjective. real ¹
3. Adjective. based on the truth, true ¹
4. Adjective. truthful, faithful; honest, veracious ¹
5. Adverb. actually; truthfully ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soothfast
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soothfast
Literary usage of Soothfast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"It might be interpreted sweetest, only that is not the point there in question,
but whether his word might be trusted. soothfast ..."
2. Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the by Christopher Wordsworth (1853)
"... the father, the sonne, and the soothfast holy ghost ". And I beleeve, that
all these three persons are even in power and in cunning, and in might, ..."
3. The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient & Modern edited by John Ross (1878)
"Suppose that they be nought but fable : Then should stories that soothfast were,
And they were said on gude manner, Have double pleasance in hearing. ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Force, substance, strength, and health, and joy to live, Being well-seasoned,
cordial comforting, The "soothfast" meat. And there be foods which bring Aches ..."
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