Word Meanings - SOOTHINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a soothing manner.

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• SOOTHNESS
  Truth; reality. Chaucer.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• SOOTHLY
  In truth; truly; really; verily. "Soothly for to say." Chaucer.
• SOOTH
  soth, AS. s, for san; akin to OS. s, OHG. sand, Icel. sannr, Sw. sann, Dan. sand, Skr. sat, sant, real, genuine, present, being; properly p. pr. from a root meaning, to be, Skr. as, L. esse; also akin to Goth. sunjis true, Gr. satya. Absent, Am,
• SOOTHINGLY
  In a soothing manner.
• SOOTHE
  1. To assent to as true. Testament of Love. 2. To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter. Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. Shak. I've tried the
• SOOTHING
  from Soothe, v.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• SOOTHER
  One who, or that which, soothes.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• SOOTHSAYER
  A mantis. (more info) 1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
• SOOTHSAY
  To foretell; to predict. "You can not soothsay." Shak. "Old soothsaying Glaucus' spell." Milton.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• SOOTHFAST
  Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful. -- Sooth"fast`ness, n. "In very soothfastness." Chaucer. Why do not you . . . bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with
• SOOTHSAYING
  1. A true saying; truth. 2. The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions. A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. Acts xvi.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• 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
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• INSOOTH
  In sooth; truly.