soothfast
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "So she brought him the China bowl saying in herself, “I shall know what to do when I find out if the words of my child concerning these jewels be soothfast or not”; […]"
- "But her brother has taken and joined their hands, And so soothfast was the kiss — So dear love's due to her lips so true — She had like to have died of bliss; […]"
- "“I'll take your word for it,” said he, with another glance at a very soothfast mask that came down on as sweet a pair of lips as ever man took craving for."
- "And hereby mayest thou see and learn, that there is no soothfast security, nor yet no true rest in this life."
- "Why do not you […] bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience?"
- ""O mother mine, verily this Shaykh is soothfast and no liar: for the first time he but tried me and now he proposeth to perform his promise.""
Etymology
From Middle English sothfast, from Old English sōþfæst (“true, trustworthy”), from Proto-West Germanic *sanþafast. Equivalent to sooth + fast.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sothfast, sōþfæst, *sanþafast