Verity vs Sooth - What's the difference?
verity | sooth |
(archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.
* 1602 : , act V scene 2
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.3:
A true statement; an established doctrine.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:
(archaic) Truth.
* (Merchant of Venice , Act I, Scene 1)
* Longfellow
(obsolete) augury; prognostication
* Spenser
(obsolete) blandishment; cajolery
(obsolete) reality; fact
(archaic) True.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Pleasing; delightful; sweet.
* Milton
* Keats
In archaic terms the difference between verity and sooth
is that verity is truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth while sooth is true.As a proper noun Verity
is {{given name|female|from=English}} derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.As an adjective sooth is
true.verity
English
Noun
(verities)- [...] but in the verity of extolment
- I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion
- of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of
- him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would
- trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
- For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities .
- Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.
sooth
English
Noun
(-)- In sooth , I know not why I am so sad.
- In good sooth , / Its mystery is love, its meaning youth.
- The sooth of birds, by beating of their wings.
Derived terms
* soothsayer * soothsaying * soothfast * forsoothAdjective
(er)- That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare.
- the soothest shepherd that ever piped on plains
- with jellies soother than the creamy curd