Word Meanings - FORSOOTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: FORSOOTH

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.

Related words: (words related to FORSOOTH)

• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• TRUTHY
  Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• ENGLISH
  A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King. (more info) 1. Collectively, the people of England;
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• FORSOOTH
  A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person. You sip so like a forsooth of the city. B. Jonson.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• TRUTHLESS
  Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• TRUTH-LOVER
  One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.
• HAYWARD
  An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• RESPECTABILITY
  The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• UNRESPECT
  Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.
• DAIRYWOMAN
  A woman who attends to a dairy.