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sooth

  [sooth] Archaic.
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–noun
1. truth, reality, or fact.
–adjective
2. soothing, soft, or sweet.
3. true or real.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE sōth; c. OS sōth, ON sannr, Goth sunjis true, Skt sat, sant true, real; akin to is

Related forms:
soothly, adverb
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soothe

  [sooth] verb, soothed, sooth⋅ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
2. to mitigate, assuage, or allay, as pain, sorrow, or doubt: to soothe sunburned skin.
–verb (used without object)
3. to exert a soothing influence; bring tranquillity, calm, ease, or comfort.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME sothen to verify, OE sōthian, equiv. to sōth sooth + -ian inf. suffix; mod. E sense shift “to verify” > “to support (a person's statement)” > “to encourage” > “to calm”

Related forms:
soother, noun

Synonyms:
1. See comfort, allay. 2. alleviate, appease, mollify.

Antonyms:
1. upset, roil.
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soothe   (sōōth)   
v.   soothed, sooth·ing, soothes

v.   tr.

  1. To calm or placate.

  2. To ease or relieve (pain, for example).

v.   intr.
To bring comfort, composure, or relief.

[Middle English sothen, to verify, from Old English sōthian, from sōth, true; see es- in Indo-European roots.]
sooth'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

sooth 
O.E. soð "truth," noun use of soþ (adj.) "true," originally *sonþ-, from P.Gmc. *santhaz (cf. O.N. sannr, O.S. soth, O.H.G. sand "true," Goth. sunja "truth"), and thus cognate with O.E. synn "sin" and L. sontis "guilty" (truth is related to guilt via "being the one;" see sin), from PIE *es-ont- "being, existence," thus "real, true," from prp. of base *es-, the s-form of the verb "to be" (see be), preserved in L. sunt "they are" and Ger. sind. Archaic in Eng., it is the root of modern words for "true" in Swed. (sann) and Dan. (sand). In common use until c.1650, then obsolete until revived as an archaism early 19c. by Scott, etc. Soothsayer is attested from 1340, from O.E. seðan "declare (the truth)."

soothe 
O.E. soðian "show to be true," from soð "true" (see sooth). Sense of "quiet, comfort, mollify" is first recorded 1697, on notion of "to assuage one by asserting that what he says is true" (i.e. to be a yes-man), a sense attested from 1568.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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