insooth en · ADV
Etymology
From in + sooth.
Meanings
-
(not-comparable, obsolete) truly
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.
1822, The smile and the tear:Insooth, good friend, your father might have kept This Calfe, bred from his Cow from all the world
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]: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.
1922, Alfred Richard Allinson translating Pierre de Bourdeille, Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies, Volume I/First Discourse: