soothfast

adj

1. (archaic)Actual; real.

   “So she brought him the China bowl saying in herself, “I shall know what to do when I find out if the words of my child concerning these jewels be soothfast or not”; […]”

   “But her brother has taken and joined their hands, And so soothfast was the kiss — So dear love's due to her lips so true — She had like to have died of bliss; […]”

   ““I'll take your word for it,” said he, with another glance at a very soothfast mask that came down on as sweet a pair of lips as ever man took craving for.”

   “And hereby mayest thou see and learn, that there is no soothfast security, nor yet no true rest in this life.”

2. (archaic)Based on the truth, true; faithful; honest, veracious

   “Why do not you […] bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience?”

   “"O mother mine, verily this Shaykh is soothfast and no liar: for the first time he but tried me and now he proposeth to perform his promise."”

   “But he said to her, “Nay, mother mine, indeed he is soothfast and lieth not; for that, in the first of his dealing, he tried me and now his intent is to accomplish unto me his promise.””

   “The "soothfast" souls adore true gods; […]”

adv

1. (obsolete)Actually; truthfully.

   “I care not if the pomps you show / Be what they soothfast appear, / Or if yon realms in sunset glow / Be bubbles of the atmosphere.”