Forsooth
adverb
In truth, indeed, truly.
You sadly mistake, my dear forsooth.
Often appears as...
- forsooth
- i know not
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
adverb
In truth, indeed, truly.
You sadly mistake, my dear forsooth.
Often appears as...
- forsooth
- i know not
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Flavor
Used to provide an old-fashioned or Shakespearean feel to language.
Good sir, forsooth, I bid thee welcome.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphatic Agreement
Expresses strong agreement or confirmation, similar to saying 'indeed' with emphasis.
Forsooth, the tale you speak of is as old as time itself.
Pro Tip 3/3Irony or Sarcasm
Sometimes used ironically or sarcastically to mock someone's statement.
Ah, forsooth, as if I would ever trust a knave like you!
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Flavor
Used to provide an old-fashioned or Shakespearean feel to language.
Good sir, forsooth, I bid thee welcome.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphatic Agreement
Expresses strong agreement or confirmation, similar to saying 'indeed' with emphasis.
Forsooth, the tale you speak of is as old as time itself.
Pro Tip 3/3Irony or Sarcasm
Sometimes used ironically or sarcastically to mock someone's statement.
Ah, forsooth, as if I would ever trust a knave like you!
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Flavor
Used to provide an old-fashioned or Shakespearean feel to language.
Good sir, forsooth, I bid thee welcome.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphatic Agreement
Expresses strong agreement or confirmation, similar to saying 'indeed' with emphasis.
Forsooth, the tale you speak of is as old as time itself.
Pro Tip 3/3Irony or Sarcasm
Sometimes used ironically or sarcastically to mock someone's statement.
Ah, forsooth, as if I would ever trust a knave like you!
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Quote examples
Richard Jefferies
English Writer
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.
Quote examples
Sojourner Truth
American Activist
The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.
Quote examples
Pliny the Elder
Roman Author
We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent!
Quote examples
Richard Jefferies
English Writer
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.
Quote examples
Sojourner Truth
American Activist
The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.
Quote examples
Pliny the Elder
Roman Author
We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent!
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