The Oxford English Dictionary, Volume 16

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Clarendon Press, 1989 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Presents in alphabetical series the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology. It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectical usage and slang.

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swth 57 suith 6 soyt soith suythe suitht
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prominent
8
And sooth T were Christian mercy to finish him 1872
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sop to say c 1386 CHAUCER Wifes Prol 601 He was I trowe
18
sooth representing the adj or sb in various
33
wretch That glitters onely to his soothed selfe 16
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J GARDNER Every Nights a Bullfight vii 170
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6 Dis soocuido vel gedd cuæð dæm se hælend c 1205
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obsolete from the beginning of the 17th cent until its revival
354
the truth veracious truthful true faithful
382
CYNEWULF Crist 302 Eac we pæt gefrugnon þæt gefyrn
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or qualities
825
bispel for ðara leasena spella lufan ac fordæmoe we woldon
900
Obs
949
plausible
986
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a soothering tongue in thee head lad 1884 see SOFTY a
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