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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forsooth \For*sooth"\, n. A person who used forsooth much a very ceremonious and deferential person. [R.] You sip so like a forsooth of the city. --B. Jonson From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forsooth \For*sooth"\, adv [AS. fors[=o][eth]; for prep. + s[=o][eth] sooth, truth. See {For}, prep., and {Sooth}.] In truth; in fact certainly; very well -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! --Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. --Guardian. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forsooth \For*sooth"\, v. t. To address respectfully with the term forsooth. [Obs.] The captain of the ``Charles'' had forsoothed her though he knew her well enough and she him --Pepys. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: forsooth adv : (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book"; (`forsooth' is archaic and now usually used to express disbelief) [syn: {in truth}, {really}, {truly}]
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