| 释义 |
ˈsoothfastness Now arch.
[f. soothfast a. + -ness.]
1. The fact, condition, or quality of being soothfast in various senses; truth; truthfulness or veracity. † in soothfastness, in sooth.
c825Vesp. Psalter v. 10 Nis in muðe heara soðfestnis. c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxv. §1 Þeah bið simle corn þære soðfæstnesse sæd on þære sawle wuniᵹende. 971Blickl. Hom. 17 Drihten sylfa cwæþ, ‘Ic eom weᵹ soðfæstnesse’. c1200Ormin 12920 And tiss iss soþfasstnessess hord Þatt all mannkinn birrþ sekenn. a1300Cursor M. 2339 Ai luued he sothfastnes and right. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 740 But now know I in verray sothfastnesse, That in gret lordschip..Ther is gret servitude. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1199 Salamon yafe counseille, men shulden prey Two thynges unto God, in sothefastnesse. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 393/1 Sende thou in to us..the ghoost of sothfastnesse. c1557Parker Ps. K ij, For as the Lorde is just in worde, so loveth he sothfastnes. 1590Lodge Euphues Gold. Leg. K 3 b, These..are of power no more, Where beautie leanes to wit and soothfastnesse. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 141 True and full of soothfastnesse. 1881Rossetti Ball. & Sonn. 121 For here sit I..In full surrender and soothfastness.
2. With the. Also const. of (a person, statement, etc.).
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxv. §6 Ne fo we no..on ða bispel for ðara leasena spella lufan, ac forðæmðe we woldon mid ᵹebecnan þa soðfæstnesse. 971Blickl. Hom. 55 Se mon se þa soþfæstnesse mid his muþe sprecþ. c1055Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia VIII. 335 æfter þære soðfæstnysse þe þa iudeisce witan heoldon. c1175Lamb. Hom. 115 Ðes kingges..sodfestnesse istaþaleð þes folkes stere. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 7 The fyrst plesance is the carpyng, And the tothir the suthfastnes, That schawys the thing rycht as it wes. c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋209 To telle yow the sothfastnesse of thinges. c1440Registr. Aberdon. (Maitl. Cl.) I. 249 Þe bischap..askis þat he be distreignyt to schawe his charter for þe suthfastnes to be knawin. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 558 The suithfastnes thairof rycht sone was schawin. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. ii. 6 The soothfastnesse of the Prophesye was shewed there by the ceremony of solemne consecration. 1830Chambers Life Jas. I, II. x. 278 The question seemed to hinge on the soothfastness of a chamber maid.
3. Personified.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. 409 Ᵹehieren eac ða..hwæt sio Soðfæsðnes ðurh hie selfe cwæð. a1300Cursor M. 9545 Þe first o þam was cald merci, Þe toþer was hatten sothfastnes. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 186 Þe secounde of þat sire is sothfastnesse, filius. c1400Love Bonavent. Mirr. (1908) 17 This douȝter sothfastnesse seith that sche perissheth. |