adverb
- truly; in truth; indeed
Usage: archaic
Examples
- Soothly, I know not what to make of this strange occurrence.
- The knight spoke soothly when he promised to defend the realm.
- Soothly, these are troubled times we live in.
- She answered soothly that she had never seen such beauty before.
- Soothly, the old ways are passing from this world.